Germline genetic screening can identify whether a patient with cancer has inherited genetic alterations in a gene or genes ...

Rare genetic diseases can go years, or even decades, without diagnosis. Standard testing often misdiagnoses these diseases, ...

I sent my cats’ saliva to the lab to get health and genetic insights sent to my inbox—with very different results.

However, applying a conventional age-based testing threshold would have substantially reduced the number of patients identified. Restricting testing to patients diagnosed before age 50 would have ...

Milestone highlights growing adoption of DNA and RNA-informed diagnostics for hereditary cancer and rare disease Ambry Genetics first implemented RNA testing in 2016 as part of a research and ...

I was one of the first to spit into a test tube, giving up my DNA forever to learn more about my health and heredity. You know, the ones that promise to connect you with distant relatives you didn’t ...

A genetic counselor at Shodair Children's Hospital in Helena explains how genetic testing can help patients understand their ...

A study of nearly 40,000 cancer patients found that age-based germline genetic testing policies would miss about 72 percent of carriers of inherited pathogenic variants, supporting universal testing ...

The largest genetic study of cognition to date has been published, involving nearly half a million people of European ...

Understanding how fetal DNA travels in a pregnant woman's blood could unlock the next generation of prenatal screening, ...

A few years ago, a patient of mine—let's call her Pandora—purchased four DNA testing kits as holiday gifts for herself and her siblings. She had seen the TV ads promising that a few ounces of spit ...