By Donrich Thaldar As the era of genomic medicine dawns, large-scale genomics projects are becoming increasingly central to health care advancements. Projects like FinnGen in Finland, the UK Biobank, and the All of Us initiative in the United States are charting new frontiers in precision medicine, enabling researchers to unlock the genetic codes underlying a…
By Abeer Malik Imagine: Overjoyed at your pregnancy, you eagerly track every milestone, logging daily habits and symptoms into a pregnancy app. Then tragedy strikes—a miscarriage. Amidst your grief, authorities knock at your door. They’ve been monitoring your digital data and now question your behavior during pregnancy, possibly building a case against you using your…
By Rebekah Ninan This past month, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a wave of artificial intelligence-related legislation into law. Much public debate has been focused on SB 1047, a proposal ultimately vetoed by Governor Newsom, which would have held AI companies liable for “catastrophic harms” from AI models. Comparatively little attention has been paid to…
Heightened Scrutiny of Your Royal Highness By Bobby Stroup On Sunday, March 10, tabloids were in quite a frenzy when the British royal family published a photoshopped picture of Catherine, princess of Wales. The hubbub was extra hubbubbly, because this was the first official photo after the princess had abdominal surgery this past January. The order…
The property law approach to ownership does not draw hard lines with respect to biological materials like tissue.
Patient-reported outcome measures have potential benefits, but raise concerns as well. This article reviews the legal landscape for PROMs.
The privatization of next-generation medical technologies, especially in regenerative and precision medicine, further muddies the data-protection waters.
Could a corporate, direct-to-consumer cell-based testing service be the next 23andme? And what would that mean for patients?
Investigative genetic genealogy is a new and complex law enforcement technique that should not be regulated by accident or as an afterthought.
In the post-Dobbs world, the accessibility of modern reproductive technologies is morphing from an intentional design feature into a dystopian defect.
