DNA Exchange
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What will advances in genetics during 2014 mean for future of medicine?
No question that 2014 has been a year to celebrate for the field of genetics. Stem cell therapy, gene therapy, ...
Genetic manipulation is a slippery–so get over it
This week, the Food and Drug Administration debated a new IVF technique that could allow women with mitochondrial disease to ...
Patents, personal genetics and progress: Top 10 genetics stories of 2013
This year was brimming with genetics news, from the Myriad BRCA test ruling to the obliteration of the idea of ...
And Bob’s your uncle: A guide to defining kinfolk
The following is an excerpt. When genetic counselors attend family reunions, their unofficial job becomes Namer-of-Relationships. “Keith, you and I are ...
Genetic counseling and the customer service model of healthcare
The following is an edited excerpt. Genetic counselors wake up every morning and go to work because we are driven ...
What the new ACMG guidelines really mean
Do patients have a right to not know what's written in their genes? The DNA Exchange explains doctors' new genetic ...
Testing everyone for everything: The problems with genetic screening
The following is an edited excerpt. New techniques of DNA sequencing make it possible to test a single sample to determine carrier ...
Genetic disease: The pitfalls of our risk perception
Statistics about genetic risk pass through patients’ psychological, cultural, social, and educational filters and out of the other side comes ...
Genetic screening and “toxic information”
The term “toxic knowledge” has been used to describe genetic information that individuals may regret learning, following a prenatal genetic ...
New paradigm for genetic counseling
In the old days (like a year or two ago) only a small portion of the patient population were thought ...
Genetic counseling and medical ethics in the age of personal genomics
On October 25th, Time Magazine ran an article about genetic testing of children with the provocative title, “What Your Doctor ...
