Breakthrough discoveries in life sciences technologies, coupled with continuing global growth in biobanks, are contributing to a core infrastructure for translational research in population genomics. At the same time, traditional intellectual property discourse, which stresses innovation as a...

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of the European Union came into force in 2018, replacing the Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC. Under the new Accountability Principle of the GDPR, controllers (i.e., parties determining the purposes and the means of the processing of personal data)...