Donna Dickenson
Genetics for the people? Nowhere in sight
"Your genetic information should be controlled by you,” declares an advertisement for the American direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic-testing firm 23andMe. Amid ...
Will public trust in personalized medicine suffer, an ethicist wonders
23andMe's personal DNA test kits have helped increase public interest in personalized medicine. But after the FDA demanded they stop ...
The ‘golden age’ of genetics that wasn’t
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Personalized medicine’s perverse economics
In pharmacogenetics, genetic typing is used to determine a patient's likely response to drugs, and create a personalized drug regime ...