Umfjöllun um erfiðleika decode í Science

Hef ekki tíma til að ræða þetta eins ítarlega og ég vildi, en bendi fólki á umfjöllun Science:

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/325/5944/1054

 

Athugasemdir

[Páll Jónsson, 29.8.2009 kl. 22:18]

Áhugavert, en Science Magazine þarfnast áskriftar svo umfjöllun frá þér er nauðsynleg fyrir fólk eins og mig sem hefur ekk aðgang að þessu.

[Arnar Pálsson, 30.8.2009 kl. 20:05]

Get ekki sett hana upp í heild vegna áskriftar ákvæða.

Engin af íslensku blöðunum hefur talað um þetta, svo ég viti!

Nokkrar setningar úr greininni:

deCODE says it is talking to potential academic as well as commercial partners as part of a restructuring. The Wellcome Trust, the giant U.K. biomedical research charity, is said to be in discussions with the company to take over support of the biobank. (Wellcome declined to comment.) But Iceland's data privacy laws and deCODE's agreements with clinicians could preclude transfer of the biobank outside the country.

Og kannski það sem vekur manni meiri ugg:

A wholesale transfer of the biobank to the United Kingdom is not a sure thing, however. Icelanders' genetic data could be moved to another European Union country, but all personal identifiers would have to be removed or made anonymous, says Sigrún Jóhannesdóttir, director of the Icelandic Data Protection Authority.