POSTS TAGGED AS genetic testing

Prenatal Exome Screening from the Mother’s Blood

Researchers develop new method for prenatal genetic testing
“A team of investigators from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Brigham and Women’s Hospital [MORE]

23 and Me’s Health Records Service

23 and Me Genetic testing
Like Apple’s Health app for the iPhone, 23 and Me (Mountain View, CA) hopes to become [MORE]

Machine Diagnosis of Rare Diseases

Genome testing
Days, weeks, months and even years can pass between the observation of a seriously sick child and the identification [MORE]

Direct to Consumer Liquid Biopsy Test for Multiple Cancers

CancerIntercept Liquid Biopsy
Pathway Genomics (San Diego, CA) is the first company to offer liquid biopsy screening tests for multiple cancers [MORE]

Liquid Biopsies for Solid Tumors

Blood Test
There are nine companies now in development of liquid biopsies for solid tumors, though none have won FDA approval [MORE]

Screening by Sequencing

DNA sequencing to screen for disease
In January, Stephen Kingsmore, chief scientific officer for the National Human Genome Research Institute, [MORE]

Getting More out of Guthrie Cards

Guthrie Card
While there is a perception that wide-spread genetic testing raises difficult ethical issues, the fact is that universal genetic [MORE]

Genetic Testing at Your Neighborhood Pharmacy

Pharmocogenics and DNA
Imagine a time-about a century ago-when physicians generally accepted the idea that germs caused disease, but didn’t [MORE]

Newborn Screening

PerkinElmer (Waltham, MA and Fremont, CA) has introduced an automated platform that quantitatively and qualitatively analyzes neonate blood samples [MORE]

Kaiser Permanente to Create 100,000 Genome Data Bank in CA

"Spit-Kit"
What do you suppose would be the reaction to a news headline that an insurance company is undertaking the largest [MORE]

Genetic Testing; Cost effectiveness

USA Today recently ran a story about the economic impact genetic testing can have on cancer treatments.  It mentions the [MORE]