genetic testing
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13-Year-Old Boy Is First Person In US To Receive Newly Approved Gene Therapy For Blindness
On Tuesday, a 13-year-old boy from New Jersey was at the center of medical history as he became the first person in the US to receive an FDA-approved gene therapy for an inherited disease. The event marks the beginning of a new era of medicine, one in which devastating genetic conditions that we are born…
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Here’s What You Need To Know Before You Buy A DNA Testing Kit
It’s amazing how much information there is hiding in one tiny globule of spit.
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What DNA Testing Companies’ Terrifying Privacy Policies Actually Mean
You probably wouldn’t hand out your social security number without having a pretty good idea of how that information was going to be used, right? That would be dumb. It’s extremely sensitive information. And yet, the consumer genetic testing market is booming thanks to people readily giving up another piece of their identity: their genetic…
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23andMe Wants To Turn Your Genetic Data Into A Drug-Discovery Goldmine
Image: 23andMe Since launching a decade ago, the consumer genetic testing company 23andMe has sold people more than two million DNA tests revealing information about their health and ancestry. Mail-in spit tests, though, aren’t the company’s long-term plan for striking it rich. On Tuesday, we got a peek at what is: Turning the genetic data…