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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
imageBiomedical 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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