Pfizer and Moderna grabbed headlines, and ushered in hope, in announcing this month that each company has vaccines that preliminary data suggest being 90-94% effective in preventing COVID-19 infections. This news is a much-needed salve to a world that has surpassed...
Ellen Matloff, president and CEO of My Gene Counsel, has been described as an advocate and a visionary for her work in the field of genetic testing. “She’s an advocate for patients, for genetic counselors, her team, and her community. She deeply cares for...
If the goal is to enroll as many people as possible in a precision medicine program, the process has to be easy for patients, regardless of their condition, geographic location, or socioeconomic situation. That is the aim of the Multiple Myeloma Research...
In the last six months, the world has learned that the SARS-CoV-2 virus, more commonly known as COVID-19, is contagious, can be deadly, and has become a global pandemic. As of today, more than 8.2 million people have tested positive, and more than 445,000 have died...
Over the past few months, we have watched the world struggle to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. As with many things, there are lessons to be learned from genomic medicine. For example, through the genetic lens, we can equate virus transmission to heritability,...
