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GENETIC TESTING

There is much controversy over whether genetic testing will lead to more informed health choices or genetic discrimination. This topic discusses how the genetic testing industry will grow and the implications for businesses and individuals.

Genetic Testing is part of Business Exchange, suggested by Len Johnson. This topic contains 604 news and 262 blog items. Read updated news, blogs, and resources about Genetic Testing. Find user-submitted articles and reactions on Genetic Testing from like-minded professionals.

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The emerging market of direct-to-consumer genetic testing gets down to...more

Want to share your genome online with friends and family? Find out how well you metabolize B vitamins? Determine if...

Genetic testing - crystal ball for parents?more

Henry VIII, the 16th-century British monarch, was plagued for years by a vexing reproductive problem. By the time he...

Long-promised '$1,000 Gene Sequence' less than two years offmore

They'll be as small as your microwave and cheaper than your laptop. And the powerful tools — future gene sequencing...

Moffitt Cancer Center decodes cancer to target treatmentsmore

treatment options. Massachusetts General Hospital, a primary teaching hospital for Harvard medical school, recently...

Gene Test May Predict Prostate Cancermore

A blood test that characterizes each prostate tumor by its unique genetic fingerprint may help pinpoint which men...

How Trivial DNA Changes Can Hurt Health more

Scientists long assumed that any DNA mutation that does not change the final protein encoded by a gene is effectively...

European Genetics Group Offers Draft of Genetic Testing Oversightmore

The European Society of Human Genetics has issued a draft version of proposed recommendations for regulating and...

Research and Markets: This Comprehensive Cardiovascular Genetics and G...more

* A primer in statistical methods in genetics * The role of ethnicity in managing cardiovascular patients * Genetic...

Our genetic code should be no big secretmore

joined by Mark Walport, chief executive of the Wellcome Trust, Kari Stefnsson, chief executive officer of the Icelandic...

A New Direction for Genomics? more

The future of genomics is now the subject of serious debate. In fact, the New York Times has reported that the gene...

Genetic tests to unravel prodigiesmore

What You Don't Know Makes You Nervousmore

someday be returned to normal. Similarly, researchers at the University of British Columbia studied people who had...

Genetic anti-discrimination law starts Thursdaymore

or otherwise discriminating based on genetic information. Experts say the law could put people at ease about having...

COMMENT: Gene scan is a crude predictormore

of personalised medicine, in which patients’ DNA can be used to predict and prevent disease. Companies such as 23andMe...

Patenting Breast Cancer Genes: Good for Patients?more

Breast cancer patients filed a lawsuit this week challenging the gene patents held by Myriad Genetics, which enable...

AxisofLogic - Gene Patents Stifle Patient Access To Medical Care And C...more

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT), a not-for-profit patent reform...

NYT: DNA suit pits patients,more

they have really patented,” he said, “is knowledge.” A patent was also granted to a single company for genetic testing...

Why screening your genes is big businessmore

However, more cost-conscious consumers are more likely to send in a saliva sample to a company like Google-backed...

23andMe Nabs $11 Millionmore

23andMe, the genetics firm founded by Anne Wojcicki, wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, has taken $11 million worth...

Genetic testing system is badly flawed, experts saymore

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The letter, signed by a diverse coalition of groups representing genetic...

Gene Test for Dosage of Warfarin Is Rebuffedmore

public comment for the next month. Edward Abrahams, executive director of the Personalized Medicine Coalition, which...

The Need to Regulate "Designer Babies"more

of Aryans continues apace. A recent survey found that about 10 percent of a group who went for genetic counseling in...

Questions Linger Over the Value of a Global Illness Surveillance Syste...more

said a few days would hardly have mattered to the global response to the outbreak. Dr. Dowell agreed. Genetic testing...

California Outpatient Centers Offer 23andMe Genome Scans for Preventat...more

23andMe and Southern California's Palomar Pomerado Health system have begun offering genetic screening services at...

What Makes Us Human - the genomes of humans and chimpanzeesmore

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