Taken in aggregate, the billions of online searches we make every day say a lot about our most private thoughts and biases. Lee Woodgate/Getty Images/Ikon Images hide caption
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UK Biobank has granted 10,000 qualified scientists access to its large database of genetic sequences and other medical data, but other organizations with databases have been far more restrictive in giving access. KTSDESIGN/Getty Images/Science Photo Library hide caption
How Should Scientists' Access To Health Databanks Be Managed?
UK Biobank, based in Manchester, England, is the largest blood-based research project in the world. The research project will involve at least 500,000 people across the U.K., and follow their health for next 30 years or more, providing a resource for scientists battling diseases. Christopher Furlong/Getty Images hide caption
UK Biobank Requires Earth's Geneticists To Cooperate, Not Compete
The 10-Year Challenge has gone viral on platforms like Facebook, but some worry about how the data will be used. Eric Baradat/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Could The 10-Year Challenge Be Putting Your Data At Risk?
According to the law in most states, health care providers own patients' medical records. But federal privacy law governs how that information can be used. And whether or not you can profit from your own medical data is murky. alicemoi/Getty Images/RooM RF hide caption
If Your Medical Information Becomes A Moneymaker, Could You Get A Cut?
When Scientists Develop Products From Personal Medical Data, Who Gets To Profit?
An Artist Sees Data So Powerful It Can Help Us Pick Better Friends
Careful custody of blood tests and tissue samples is essential to the success of precision medicine. David Silverman/Getty Images hide caption
Precision Medical Treatments Have A Quality Control Problem
Gentrification brings with it new restaurants, businesses and housing but often pushes out longtime residents. Jay Lazarin/Getty Images hide caption
A new urban district and an annual big-data expo have arisen in recent years as the centerpiece of the high-tech industry in Guiyang, capital of Guizhou province. Anthony Kuhn/NPR hide caption
A Remote Chinese Province Uses Its Climate To Grow A Big-Data Industry
Taken in aggregate, the billions of online searches we make every day say a lot about our most private thoughts and biases. Lee Woodgate/Getty Images/Ikon Images hide caption
This computer-enhanced barium contrast X-ray shows colon cancer in red. Researchers have been trying to figure out what looks to be a decade-long rise in colon cancer among people younger than 50. Scott Camazine/Science Source hide caption
Big Data Coming In Faster Than Biomedical Researchers Can Process It
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump caused a stir recently by saying that data and campaign technology was "overrated" in the political world. Matt Rourke/AP hide caption
The Kavli HUMAN Project aims to capture data over 20 years based on the lives of 10,000 people, centered in New York. Ferran Traité Soler/iStockphoto hide caption
Following the example set in Pakistan, the government of Bangladesh is having the mobile operator Grameenphone, which is majority-owned by Telenor, fingerprint SIM card customers. This is an FAQ on the biometric program. Grameenphone hide caption
After Terrorist Attack, A Phone Company Is Beating Google At Big Data
Climate models project 21st century global temperatures. NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio and NASA Center for Climate Simulation hide caption