Topic: Navigenics Inc.
Make Grandma spill the beans: Uncovering all the diseases that lurk in your family tree can trump costly genetic testing in predicting what illnesses you and your children are likely to face.It may sound old-fashioned, but a Cleveland Clinic study comparing which ...
Genetic testing is becoming commonplace. Companies such as 23andme and Navigenics are offering a DTC tests for SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphisms), single mutations on the DNA backbone that may be linked to certain diseases. How will these future tests, the Genetic Information ...
The current yawning gap between the availability of genetic tests for common diseases and their usefulness for patients is due in part to a lack of physician training and familiarity with these tests. A helpful step in bringing genetic testing into the ...
Geneticist Craig Venter and colleagues have tested two of the leading consumer genomics services and declared the fledgling industry to be promising, but still very early in terms of how useful the information might be.. Venter, the founder of the J. Craig ...
Like some of the "early adopters" interviewed by New Scientist last year, I was left a little underwhelmed by two of the leading personal genomics services, 23andMe of Mountain View, California, and deCODEme of Reykjavik, Iceland. My deCODEme scan includes around 1 ...
Just ask Lauralee Nygaard. Her doctor was equally mystified, and when three months of testing didn't provide any answers, she suggested Nygaard undergo genetic testing with Decodeme.Sure enough, the test revealed a genetic variation associated with atrial fibrillation, a heart arrhythmia that ...
BEHIND THE HYPE If Greg Lennon is right, then the personal genome gold rush has a major flaw: "Most people can save themselves $1,000 just by asking Aunt Clara what runs in the family," says Lennon. And in the long run, Lennon, ...
GS Early of KCI Investing blogged live from the Predicitive Software panel: Microsoft, IBM and a couple start-ups that use "continuous intelligence" to help manage complex systems... read more. John Moore of Chilmark Research covered a panel on Personal Genomics: Linda Avey ...
BACK in 2002, before the $3 billion Human Genome Project was even complete, some biologists began to talk of sequencing the entire genome of any individual for just $1000. Three companies are now offering extensive DNA read-outs directly to the public. For ...
James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA's double helix, and Craig Venter, who helped unravel the human genome, have copies of their own personal genomes. Now Iceland-based deCode Genetics is offering the rest of us the next best thing: "This is a service," Kari ...
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