Vice President Joe Biden will unveil a 12,000-patient, open-access cancer research database called the Genomic Data Commons today, The Washington Post reports. The database will include “raw genomic and clinical data” as well as information regarding patients’ treatment types and their bodies' response to it, the report states. “This is good news in the fight against cancer,” Biden said. “Increasing the pool of researchers who can access data and decreasing the time it takes for them to review and find new patterns in that data is critical to speeding up development of lifesaving treatments for patients.” The GDC will have privacy protections in place, with representatives from cancer centers drafting a model consent form, the report adds. (Registration may be required to access this story.)
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