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GATTACA is still pertinent 25 years later

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It has been 25 years since the release of GATTACA, a film that tells the story of a credible near future in which society’s inequalities, formerly associated with race and class, have been replaced with new prejudices based on genetic determinism. Here we compare GATTACA’s fictional technologies with reality’s state of the art, assessing the legal protections afforded in today’s society against GATTACA’s dystopian future in which personal freedom and privacy rights are substantially curtailed by genomic innovations. We further discuss how GATTACA’s prescient forewarnings are still relevant today in light of the current trajectory of genomic science and technology.

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  1. Zvi Meitar Institute for Legal Implications of Emerging Technologies, Reichman University, Herzliya, Israel

    Dov Greenbaum

  2. Harry Radzyner Law School, Reichman University, Herzliya, Israel

    Dov Greenbaum

  3. Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry Department, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

    Dov Greenbaum & Mark Gerstein

  4. Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Program, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

    Mark Gerstein

  5. Department of Computer Science, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

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Greenbaum, D., Gerstein, M. GATTACA is still pertinent 25 years later. Nat Genet 54, 1758–1760 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-022-01242-5

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