Test Avoidance

May 26, 2017

This post has been updated to reflect the current enrollment goals for the BabySeq study and to include the co-PI.

People may be avoiding genetic tests because of fears of discrimination by insurance companies, Gizmodo reports.

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The Scan

A new analysis examines the gender gap among paper authors in the sciences and says it may take decades or more to close.

Researchers have uncovered signals of selection that may enable the Bajau people to free five hundreds of feet deep, Reuters reports.

In Science this week: paternally inherited cis-regulatory structural variants in autism, and more.

A new report outlines issues facing the implementation of personalized medicine in the UK, the Independent reports.