Victorian Clinical Genetics Services is one of two partners in Acute Care Genomics, which is testing DNA from critically ill infants and kids across Australia.
The institute is seeking a bioinformatics chief who will oversee MCRI's transformation of the unit from a core service facility to an independent research center focused initially on analysis of high-throughput or second-generation sequencing data.
Researchers from the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute in Parkville, Australia, investigated the feasibility of replacing "time-consuming, locus-specific testing for specific microdeletion and microduplication syndromes with microarray analysis." Study co-author Howard Slater spoke with BioArray News about the paper.
The UK's Human Fertility and Embryology Authority calls for consumer genetic testing companies to warn customers that testing could uncover family secrets, according to the Guardian.
