MIT Technology Review
Genetic matchmaking? Not all that far fetched
What if finding “The One” meant finding the person whose genome is most compatible with your own? That’s the question raised ...
Companies monopolize genetic data, even without gene patents
In June the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that patents on genes were invalid. Yet corporate intellectual-property claims can still harm ...
Creating a consumer genetic test to predict your drug response
A personal genetics startup thinks that there is one set of DNA variants that everyone should know: the ones that ...
RNA drugs target genes that were once off-limits
A new class of medicines could give doctors the ability to awaken underperforming genes in patients who currently have no ...
Better screening for deadly genetic diseases
One in 100 babies worldwide is born with a disease caused by a single gene, according to the World Health Organization ...
Monsanto wants to help honeybees fight mites with biotech
A new weapon in that fight to save honeybees could be RNA molecules that kill a troublesome parasite by disrupting ...
Marketing to the big data inside us
Start-up "Miinome" plans to create a club that stores the DNA data of genome-sequenced people ...
Synthetic biology could speed flu vaccine production
The following is an excerpt of a longer story. Synthetic biology is breathing new life into the old-fashioned world of ...
Participants in Personal Genome Project identified by privacy experts
This is an edited excerpt. In 2006, the Personal Genome Project (PGP) was launched to collect genomic information from 100,000 ...
Questions over gene patents shake diagnostics industry
The following is an excerpt. At this week’s Biotechnology Industry Organization show in Chicago, a panel of law experts bemoaned the recent Supreme Court ...
Genetically modified microbes can mass-produce malaria drug
The following is an excerpt. For the first time, researchers have successfully engineered a strain of baker’s yeast capable of ...
The dawn of genome trolling
The following is an excerpt. Last week European scientists were shamed into cutting off public access to a genome sequence ...
Doctors should tell patients about some — not all — unexpected genetic findings
The following is an excerpt. On Thursday [21 March 2013], the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics recommended that doctors tell ...
New company will bring extinct species back from the dead
Two of biotechnology’s most prolific and far-sighted researchers say they’re teaming up to start a company that intends to rewrite ...
New disease registry gives patients some privacy
The following is an edited excerpt. As advances in genomics, molecular analysis, and data processing have propelled disease research forward, ...
Solid-State Sequencer Debuts at Genome Conference
The following is an edited excerpt. Nabsys, a DNA technology startup, showed off today its solid-state gene sequencing machine at ...
The brain is not computable
At this year's meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a top neuroscientist dismissed the idea of ...
A look inside China’s genome factory
The following is an excerpt. Sequencing a complete human genome may soon cost less than an iPhone. Will China’s BGI-Shenzhen decode yours? BGI-Shenzhen, once known as ...
The bank where doctors can stash your genome
The following is an excerpt. Genomic sequencing might be more common in medicine if doctors had a simple way to ...
A brave new world of prenatal DNA sequencing
The following is an excerpt. Conventional methods for checking a baby’s genome for abnormalities require invasive procedures, such as using ...
Study highlights the privacy risk of donating your genome
If you contribute your genome sequence anonymously to a scientific study, that data might still be linked back to you, ...
Why we have a right to consumer genetics
It’s hard to get straightforward health guidance from personal genome tests, which are banned in some places. But one way ...
Gene therapy on the mend
Last month, Europe’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use approved a gene therapy for a rare genetic disease, the ...
Genetic screening uncovers risky matches at the sperm bank
Genetic Screening Can Uncover Risky Matches at the Sperm BankMIT Technology Review (blog)Experts in assistive reproduction say the idea behind ...
Genome hunters go after martian DNA
Two high-profile entrepreneurs say they want to put a DNA sequencing machine on the surface of Mars in a bid ...
Gene control, delivered directly to the brain , could help cure diseases
A biotech company called Alnylam announced today that a small clinical trial for a genetic therapy based on RNA interference, ...
Human stem cells found to restore memory
A California biotech company announced that its human stem cells restored memory in rodents bred to have an Alzheimer's-like condition—the ...
Breaking the genome bottleneck
The genomic data generated from next-generation sequencing machines doesn't amount to much more than alphabet soup if it's not subjected ...
