Amy Dockser Marcus
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Superdonors: Recovered COVID patients with high antibody levels in demand by blood banks and researchers
There is new determination in the search for high-antibody plasma because under FDA guidelines issued earlier this month, all donated ...

Population health vs personalized medicine? Coronavirus pandemic highlights the importance of multiple approaches
“If we are to advance health care in the United States, where is the dollar best spent? Is it spent ...

Infographic: Racing to create affordable at-home test for COVID-19
To stretch beyond the lab, test developers are racing to produce next-stage technologies that could allow for rapid widespread testing ...

‘Fragments of dead virus’ preventing recovered coronavirus patients from donating plasma
Close to four weeks after recovering from a Covid-19 infection, Jennie Novakovic went to her local hospital hoping to donate ...

When a consumer genetics test pushes your ‘right to know’ against someone else’s ‘right to privacy’
Stephen Wald took a home DNA test in 2018, hoping to explore his family ancestry with his two young children ...

DIY home gene editing is all the rage: Here are the promises and pitfalls
Kian Sadeghi has postponed homework assignments, sports practice and all the other demands of being a 17-year-old high-school junior...On a ...

Life in genetic limbo: You’ve got the gene but, so far, no disorder
Genetic testing is teaching some people they have the genetic markers of disease, but no symptoms yet. Neither patients nor ...
A community’s twist on genetic tests
In Williamsburg, a bustling Brooklyn enclave across the East River from Manhattan, a sect of ultra-Orthodox Jews dresses in garb ...

As gene mapping nears $1,000, will it improve our health?
The cost of mapping a person's full genetic profile has been dropping quickly. Now, doctors are struggling with a new ...