Icelandic biomedical company, deCODE, owns exclusive rights to a genetic database of all Icelanders. Studying the genome of the entire population could reveal trends because Iceland is such an isolated and hardly migratory nation. As with much of the biotechnology research the concept and purpose of this database raises questions in medical ethics.

Concepts

bioethics, biotechnology

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Additional Tags

biomedical ethics, genetic database, national health database, iceland genetics, iceland genome, decode

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)