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Oct 11, 2019

Genes at the Mall Near You?

23andMe has a holiday popup shop at a mall and could open additional stores, Bloomberg reports.

Oct 10, 2019

Uniparental Disomy More Common in General Population Than Previously Thought

Researchers analyzed data from 23andMe and the UK Biobank to find that errors of recombination, like uniparental disomy, can be present among healthy individuals.

Oct 07, 2019

Appeals Court Upholds Unpatentability of 23andMe IP

23andMe had sued Ancestry.com for, among other things, infringing a patent related to a method for determining the degree to which two people in a database are related.

Sep 26, 2019

To Get Them Enrolled

Direct-to-consumer genetic testing company 23andMe is partnering with clinical trial firm TrialSpark to address low recruitment into clinical trials.

Sep 26, 2019

23andMe, TrialSpark Request Proposals for New Joint Clinical Trial Offering

The companies will offer customers a way to mine 23andMe's customer base for subjects with specific genetic or clinical features, and design and conduct a trial around them.

Sep 20, 2019

Knowing Risk From a Young Age

A 26-year-old woman tells Cosmopolitan about learning her APOE status at a young age.

Jul 24, 2019

Drug Development from DTC Database

23andMe and GlaxoSmithKline's partnership has uncovered half a dozen drug targets but also raised ethical questions, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Jul 22, 2019

Medical Test for Tax Reasons

US tax agency says 23andMe's genetic health test can be claimed as a medical expense for tax purposes, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Jul 17, 2019

Upgrade Time?

23andMe is offering early customers re-testing on newer chips for a fee, Wired reports.

Jul 16, 2019

Alnylam, 23andMe Partner on Free Family Testing Program for Hereditary ATTR Amyloidosis

23andMe customers who have one of three common variants identified in reports can choose six family members to receive health and ancestry test kits.

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The Scan

PLOS Papers Look at Gut Mycobacterium Abscessus, Preterm Birth Transcriptomics, More

In PLOS this week: Mycobacterium abscessus linked to gastric conditions, placental gene expression changes associated with preterm birth, and more.

All That Plastic in the Lab

The Guardian reports that UK universities are looking into ways to reduce labs' reliance on single-use plastics.

Garlic Helps, Too

People with certain gene variants tend to not like vegetables, particularly bitter ones, CNN reports.

Now Here

MIT's Technology Review reports on a company's genetic test that gauges an embryo's susceptibility to certain diseases.

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