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Turna Ray

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Turna Ray has been covering the personalized medicine and molecular diagnostics industries for GenomeWeb since 2006. She closely tracks the evolving regulatory, reimbursement, and business environment for precision medicine products. 

Articles Authored by Turna Ray

Nov 12, 2018

NCI-MATCH Patients With AKT1-Mutated Cancers Respond Well to AstraZeneca Drug

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In this arm of the trial, 23 percent of patients treated with AKT1 E17K mutations saw their tumors shrink, a better result than those seen in three other trial arms.

Nov 05, 2018

FDA Actions on PGx Testing Confuse Genetic Industry Players

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The genetic testing community is having a tough time deciphering FDA's intentions based on its authorization of 23andMe’s PGx test and a recent safety alert.

Oct 29, 2018

Genetic Counselors Push to Advance Legislation to Allow Medicare Billing

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The National Society of Genetic Counselors has garnered bipartisan support for H.R. 7083 by emphasizing healthcare savings from using counselors to drive appropriate test use.

Oct 23, 2018

Quest Diagnostics Wrongful Death Lawsuit Ordered to Move to Discovery

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The development is a positive for plaintiff Amy Williams, who has said she hopes her lawsuit will spur greater accountability and transparency among genetic testing labs.

Oct 18, 2018

Color Unveils Public Repository of Variant, Clinical Data on 50K Customers at ASHG Meeting

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The company presented Color Data as a resource for variant classification scientists and hopes it will inspire industry peers to similarly share data.

Oct 12, 2018

Clinical PGx Implementation Consortium Developing API for Guidelines Integration Into Health Records

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A $5 million NIH grant will fund CPIC's ongoing work to develop PGx guidelines and an API for incorporating them into EHRs and clinical decision support systems.

Oct 11, 2018

Researchers Explore Variety of Response Markers in Melanoma Study of Combo Checkpoint Inhibitors

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Using samples from different points in patients' treatment, researchers employed a variety of tools, including NanoString's GeoMx DSP, to explore potential response markers.

Oct 03, 2018

Healthy Nevada Project Participants Start Receiving Incidental Findings Following Exome Sequencing

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The project is informing participants of familial hypercholesterolemia genetic test results, and hereditary breast and ovarian cancer, and Lynch syndrome results will follow.

Sep 28, 2018

NorthShore, Ambry Make Prostate Cancer Polygenic Risk Score Available Nationally

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The 72-SNP score is for men of European ancestry who don't have mutations in high penetrance risk genes or mutations in genes associated with aggressive disease.

Sep 25, 2018

Geisinger Deploys 'Gia' Chatbot to Help Genetic Counselors Manage MyCode Participants

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The chatbot developed with Clear Genetics follows up with patients after genetic testing and educates family members at risk for inheriting the same mutations.

The Scan

Halt Under Consideration

The United Nations is to consider a ban on field testing gene drives at a meeting being held next week, Technology Review reports.

How's It Going to Go Over?

The Associated Press reports that gene-edited food may soon be for sale.

Meetings on Fetal Research

The US Department of Health and Human Services is beginning a series of meetings on human fetal tissue research, Stat News reports.

This Week in Cell

In Cell this week: epigenetic change linked to glioblastomas, rare and low-frequency variants contributing to multiple sclerosis risk, and more.

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