Complicated questions of consent, openness, ownership and bioethics continue to unfold in relation to the HeLa cell line. NPR’s shots blog had this coverage about the recent publication (and subsequent withdrawal) of the genome. Jonathan Eisen has discussed the incident (with some strong language) and collected social media discussion of it on his blog. An item from the MIT Technology Review has a very different take. Can anyone own DNA? What are individuals’ rights to privacy when it comes to their DNA? Since we are dealing with heritable information, where do privacy rights end (children, grandchildren)? A post from Michelle Huckaby Lewis at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics discusses the new privacy concerns surrounding genetics research and the need to build public trust in this emerging area.

The Pinakes has a roundup of posts about the board of the Journal of Library Administration (JLA) stepping down to protest the publisher’s policies, which the board felt were too restrictive and discouraging to authors considering publication in the journal. Scott Walker at ACRLog says that the former board of JLA Lights the Way.