Personalized drug prescriptions? The future is now as support grows for expanding pharmacogenomic tests

Personalized drug prescriptions? The future is now as support grows for expanding pharmacogenomic tests

Linda Geddes | 
Genetic testing to predict how individuals will respond to common medicines should be implemented without delay to reduce the risk ...
Is the direct-to-consumer genetic testing boom fading?

Is the direct-to-consumer genetic testing boom fading?

Nicole Wetsman | 
At-home health testing company LetsGetChecked has acquired the genetic testing company Veritas Genetics and spinoff Veritas Intercontinental, it announced [March ...
Genedrive: There is now a simple bedside genetic test that can prevent many newborns from drug-reaction deafness

Genedrive: There is now a simple bedside genetic test that can prevent many newborns from drug-reaction deafness

Rachel Pugh | 
The instant that toddler Khobi Jerome hears the opening notes of any song from Frozen, she’s up on her feet ...
3 million base pairs: Human genome now fully mapped

3 million base pairs: Human genome now fully mapped

Clare Watson | 
Scientists have filled in millions of missing pieces of human DNA, yielding the most complete, gapless sequence of the human ...
Diagnosing Huntington’s disease, muscular dystrophy and fragile X syndrome? New DNA test can cut diagnosis time from decades to days

Diagnosing Huntington’s disease, muscular dystrophy and fragile X syndrome? New DNA test can cut diagnosis time from decades to days

Laura Boland | 
A new DNA test, developed by researchers at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney and collaborators from Australia, ...
Investigation: DNA ancestry search uncovers fertility fraud. What happens next?

Investigation: DNA ancestry search uncovers fertility fraud. What happens next?

Jaqueline Mroz | 
Traci Portugal, who is in her 40s, lives in Washington State and runs the website DonorDeceived.org, which catalogs and tracks ...
New study probes reactions to discovering new relatives through consumer DNA testing

New study probes reactions to discovering new relatives through consumer DNA testing

Ricki Lewis | 
Late winter is the season for dealing with unexpected findings from DNA testing kits gifted in December. For most people, ...
More than 50 hard-to-detect genetic disorders can now be diagnosed with a revolutionary DNA test

More than 50 hard-to-detect genetic disorders can now be diagnosed with a revolutionary DNA test

A new DNA test, developed by researchers at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney and collaborators from Australia, ...
Many people carry severe disease genes that should be deadly — but they survive and are healthy. How?

Many people carry severe disease genes that should be deadly — but they survive and are healthy. How?

Eric Boodman | 
The result didn’t make sense. The researcher kept scanning the mouse’s pregnant belly, back and forth, back and forth. They ...
Genetic genealogy leads to unexpected — and sometimes destabilizing — revelations

Genetic genealogy leads to unexpected — and sometimes destabilizing — revelations

Genetic genealogy has become a popular hobby over the past several years, thanks to direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing and relative-finder ...
How DNA analysis uncovered the illegal elephant ivory trade

How DNA analysis uncovered the illegal elephant ivory trade

Christina Larson | 
As few as three major criminal groups are responsible for smuggling the vast majority of elephant ivory tusks out of ...
Can genetic screening improve your chances of finding a successful career?

Can genetic screening improve your chances of finding a successful career?

Nitin Thakur | 
We might not realise or give it any thought but the type of work we prefer, whether we pursue a ...
How genetics explains in part why Black women are more likely to to die of breast cancer

How genetics explains in part why Black women are more likely to to die of breast cancer

Tracey Romero | 
Black women have a 31% breast cancer mortality rate – the highest of any U.S. racial or ethnic group. Additionally, ...
Genomics Beyond Health: UK considers impact of genes on sports, education, and crime

Genomics Beyond Health: UK considers impact of genes on sports, education, and crime

George Freeman | 
A new wide-ranging report Genomics Beyond Health published [January 26] by the Government Office for Science investigates how genomics could ...
Why will some people never get COVID — and why are they so important to researchers?

Why will some people never get COVID — and why are they so important to researchers?

Eileen Drage O'Reilly | 
Some people don't get COVID despite being exposed to the virus — a mystery researchers are trying to unravel. Why ...
Eating disorders: How advances in genetics and psychology are informing new treatments

Eating disorders: How advances in genetics and psychology are informing new treatments

Kendall Powell | 
In 2017, Hennie Thomson checked herself into a hospital for six weeks of in-patient treatment for anorexia nervosa. She was ...
How artificial intelligence is helping diagnose rare diseases

How artificial intelligence is helping diagnose rare diseases

Many sufferers of rare diseases endure an odyssey until the correct diagnosis is made. "The goal is to detect such ...
'Eye color is as specific as a thumbprint': Why your eyes are completely unique

‘Eye color is as specific as a thumbprint’: Why your eyes are completely unique

Cari Shane | 
As recently as the aughts, it was believed that eye color was determined by a single gene — brown, dominant; ...
How culture and technology are shaping human evolution

How culture and technology are shaping human evolution

Avery Hurt | 
Cultural changes are likely affecting modern human evolution in ways we don’t yet understand. For example, research has shown that ...
Cure for cancer? Two patients leukemia free a decade after breakthrough gene therapy

Cure for cancer? Two patients leukemia free a decade after breakthrough gene therapy

Sarah Gantz | 
Penn researchers in 2010 treated their first chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients with CAR-T therapy, which uses the body’s own immune ...
‘Unproven and unethical’: Ethicists raise questions about human embryo risk analysis tests

‘Unproven and unethical’: Ethicists raise questions about human embryo risk analysis tests

Linda Geddes | 
Experts have warned against the “unproven” and “unethical” use of genetic tests to predict the risk of complex diseases in ...
How do gene-environment interactions drive autism?

How do gene-environment interactions drive autism?

People with autism spectrum disorders all have characteristic behavioral difficulties. Nevertheless, the important heterogeneity of their symptoms remains one of ...
Do biobanks that accept anonymous DNA have a responsibility to inform donors when they discover a treatable genetic defect?

Do biobanks that accept anonymous DNA have a responsibility to inform donors when they discover a treatable genetic defect?

Gina Kolata | 
What should happen when researchers, while sequencing a participant’s DNA as part of a large study, discover gene variants that ...
Breast and ovarian cancer BRCA genes now linked to prostate and pancreatic cancers, even in men

Breast and ovarian cancer BRCA genes now linked to prostate and pancreatic cancers, even in men

Craig Brierley | 
Faulty versions of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes are well known to increase the risk of breast cancer in men ...
‘Deleting’ disease? How gene editing and transgenic GMO technology can cut disorders before they are inherited

‘Deleting’ disease? How gene editing and transgenic GMO technology can cut disorders before they are inherited

Elizabeth Rayne | 
What has now been proven possible was once the stuff of science fiction dreams. CRISPR has shown it can successfully ...
More confirmation that people who have these Neanderthal genes are better protected against severe COVID

More confirmation that people who have these Neanderthal genes are better protected against severe COVID

Taran Deol | 
The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has now entered its third year. Since its inception, it has infected people differently ...
Viewpoint: Did the New York Times blunder in its analysis of non-invasive prenatal blood test (NIPT) limitations?

Viewpoint: Did the New York Times blunder in its analysis of non-invasive prenatal blood test (NIPT) limitations?

Pete Shanks | 
On January 1st, The New York Times website prominently featured a substantial piece of investigative journalism about a relatively new ...
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