Natural Citizen
01-30-2015, 03:53 PM
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A new $215 million US government proposal would seek more than 1 million American volunteers for analysis of their genetic information in an initiative to fight disease, while developing targeted health care based on one’s DNA.
The US Congress has signaled support for the biobank project, according (http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2015/01/obama-precision-medicine-plan-would-create-huge-u-s-genetic-biobank?rss=1) to Science magazine, but it would still have to approve Obama’s funding proposal.
Dr. Margaret Hamburg, the FDA's commissioner, said Thursday a new regulatory structure to accompany the development of new drugs and precision medicine "presents a set of new issues for us at FDA,” adding that the agency is in the process of working on new ways to review individualized medical procedures.
DNA mapping is an increasingly valuable tool for law enforcement as well as the health industry. In its 2013 Maryland v. King ruling, the US Supreme Court narrowly decided (http://rt.com/usa/supreme-court-dna-police-171/) that the Fourth Amendment allows law enforcement to, without a warrant, collect DNA samples from arrestees even if they have not been convicted of a crime.
"Make no mistake about it,” the dissenting group of justices wrote of the majority decision. “Your DNA can be taken and entered into a national database if you are ever arrested, rightly or wrongly, and for whatever reason."
Continued - Got genes: Obama proposes genetic biobank of 1mn Americans’ DNA to fight disease (http://rt.com/usa/227967-dna-genetic-analysis-disease/)
Reuters/National Human Genome Research Institute/Handout
A new $215 million US government proposal would seek more than 1 million American volunteers for analysis of their genetic information in an initiative to fight disease, while developing targeted health care based on one’s DNA.
The US Congress has signaled support for the biobank project, according (http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2015/01/obama-precision-medicine-plan-would-create-huge-u-s-genetic-biobank?rss=1) to Science magazine, but it would still have to approve Obama’s funding proposal.
Dr. Margaret Hamburg, the FDA's commissioner, said Thursday a new regulatory structure to accompany the development of new drugs and precision medicine "presents a set of new issues for us at FDA,” adding that the agency is in the process of working on new ways to review individualized medical procedures.
DNA mapping is an increasingly valuable tool for law enforcement as well as the health industry. In its 2013 Maryland v. King ruling, the US Supreme Court narrowly decided (http://rt.com/usa/supreme-court-dna-police-171/) that the Fourth Amendment allows law enforcement to, without a warrant, collect DNA samples from arrestees even if they have not been convicted of a crime.
"Make no mistake about it,” the dissenting group of justices wrote of the majority decision. “Your DNA can be taken and entered into a national database if you are ever arrested, rightly or wrongly, and for whatever reason."
Continued - Got genes: Obama proposes genetic biobank of 1mn Americans’ DNA to fight disease (http://rt.com/usa/227967-dna-genetic-analysis-disease/)