THE INTERNATIONAL CANCER GENOME CONSORTIUM authorized its 1,000th user, giving them access to the Consortium’s Controlled Access datasets. ICGC datasets that catalogue tumor-specific mutations are unrestricted and freely available to the scientific community. However, the consortium developed an authorization process to distribute clinical and inherited genetic data associated with unique individuals in order to minimize...
The White House Office of Management and Budget has published a “Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance,” a proposed rule that seeks to fundamentally redraw the ground rules for all federally funded research. On the other side are America’s scientists who aren’t just crying foul—they are readying for a political fight.
