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Jul 23, 2019

ICE Expands DNA Testing Sites

CNN reports that Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the US has expanded its DNA testing to seven sites along the southern border.

Jul 18, 2019

Rhythm Pharmaceuticals, PreventionGenetics to Offer Genetic Testing for Obesity Disorders

Rhythm has a drug called setmelanotide in Phase III development for genetic obesity disorders associated with variants within the melanocortin-4 pathway.

Jul 15, 2019

And Now You Know

NPR speaks with research participants before and after they learn their APOE E4 status, which affects their risk of developing Alzheimer's disease.

Jun 28, 2019

Another Scammer Warning

US health officials have issued a fraud alert for a scam involving genetic testing, Bloomberg reports.

Jun 25, 2019

FDNA, PerkinElmer Form Genetic Testing Technology Alliance

FDNA has developed software called Face2Gene that uses facial anomalies, phenotypic traits, and variant information to diagnose genetic disorders.

Jun 21, 2019

Cascade Testing for Dilated Cardiomyopathy Likely to Be Cost Effective, Analysis Finds

An Australian team developed a decision model for testing asymptomatic relatives of patients with dilated cardiomyopathy to assess the cost effectiveness of testing.

Jun 20, 2019

With US Congress Considering Changes to Patent Laws, Dx Stakeholders Offer Differing Views

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Senators said they'll narrow the draft bill containing changes to US patent law before submitting it to the Senate Judiciary Committee in July.

Jun 18, 2019

Element Biosciences Raises $15M in Series A Financing

The San Diego-based firm emerged from stealth mode with a plan to develop technologies to improve the quality and reduce the cost of genetic analysis.

Jun 11, 2019

Multi-Gene Panel Testing Finds Pathogenic Variant Carriers Missed Under Current Testing Guidelines

Color researchers reported that 21.7 percent of individuals with pathogenic variants in well-established genes did not meet guidelines for testing.

Jun 07, 2019

Not Always the Expected Donor

Genetic testing reveals cases in which the wrong donor sperm was used to conceive children decades ago, the New York Times reports.

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The Scan

To Explain What They Mean

The US National Institutes of Health's All of Us project awarded $4.6 million to the company Color to develop a genetic counseling resource for the program.

A Few Days

The Times of India reports on a pilot study that used genomic testing to determine whether patients had drug-resistant tuberculosis.

Slightly Larger Pool

New guidelines say that more women may benefit from genetic testing for hereditary breast or ovarian cancer, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Cell Studies Explore Microbiome Genes, Tumor Influence, More

In Cell this week: small proteins identified among human microbiome, role for tumor microbes in pancreatic cancer survival, and more.

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