The Food and Drug Administration has written a letter to inform laboratory personnel and health care providers that several of Illumina's next-generation machines have a software vulnerability that could allow an unauthorised user to take control of the system remotely and alter settings or data. Bloomberg UK has the details...
DNA-sequencing machines could compromise patient data, warns the FDA
Image by Peter Artymiuk via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts the shadow of a DNA double helix, on a background that shows the fluorescent banding of the output from a DNA sequencing machine.
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