Following a lengthy discovery period, the lab is asking a South Carolina federal district court to find in its favor and decide that its negligence did not result in the death of Williams' son.
The Wall Street Journal reports that the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics has called on Myriad Genetics and others to share the genetic data they have amassed.
In seven years, the public variant classification database has steadily become a resource that labs are submitting to and that genetics experts are consulting.
With a $3.7 million NIH grant, database developers hope to garner FDA recognition, develop a new user interface, and further integrate its use in cancer care.
The researchers estimated that addition of RNA-based testing could benefit about 1 in 43 individuals undergoing hereditary cancer predisposition genetic testing.
The partners will codevelop software for both small and large variant detection and Illumina will create hardware-accelerated versions for its Dragen platform.
Rady's Children Hospital and San Diego County are teaming up to test pediatric patients and their families for COVID-19 to gauge the spread of the virus locally, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune.
Wildlife managers aim to boost the genetic diversity of Mexican gray wolves by placing captive-born foster pups into packs with similarly aged wild pups, the Mercury News reports.
