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[ad_1] (Illustration by Wendolyn Hill) The era of functional genomics has allowed scientists to analyze huge amounts of data on cellular activity in disease and health. The more this data is shared between labs, the more power scientists have to find disease-related genes. This widespread sharing of functional genomics data, …

[ad_1] Several friends and professional contacts phoned me this summer saying they had received e-mails from a shady entity claiming to have hacked their computer webcams while they were viewing adult websites. The intruders have threatened to send video clips of these people by doing – well, you can guess …