Nebula Genomics Inc., a DNA testing company, is offering to step up protection against improper use of customers’ data with an anonymous genome analysis service.
Using cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin for payment and eliminating any identifying information from transactions, the service alleviates concerns about hacking or DNA data security breaches, said Dennis Grishin, Nebula’s chief scientific officer. The approach was described in the journal Nature Biotechnology.
Co-founded by Grishin and Harvard University geneticist George Church, Nebula is helping individuals sell their DNA data to drugmakers and other companies looking to tailor products to the cellular code that guides construction of organs and tissues.
