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The best way to protect personal biomedical data from hackers could be to treat the problem like a game

  • Written by Zhiyu Wan, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University
The best way to protect personal biomedical data from hackers could be to treat the problem like a gameBiomedical research relies on large amounts of genomic data, which has to be protected from revealing people's identities.AP Photo/Jerome Delay

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