Topic: Navigenics Inc.

Mapping Your Genes

Spend a weekend with your family and you can't help but wonder if you've inherited your father's tendency to put on weight or your grandmother's rheumatoid arthritis. Now, with a gaggle of new companies offering direct-to-consumer genetic testing, you can find out ...

GENE TESTS: BEHIND THE HYPE

GENE TESTS: BEHIND THE HYPE If Greg Lennon is right, then the personal genome gold rush has a major flaw: There's not much gold there--not yet. In the past year, companies have launched high-profile efforts to read the future in people's genes. ...