by Danielle Bonadies | Feb 9, 2021 | News
As seen on The Washington Post and Kaiser Health News By Christina Bennett When her gynecologist recommended genetic testing, Mai Tran was reluctant. “I didn’t really want to do it,” recalled Tran, who had just turned 21 and was living in New...
by Danielle Bonadies | Jan 2, 2020 | News
In 2019, the field of personalized medicine continued to grow with the market launch of more than two dozen drugs targeting novel genomic alterations and numerous genetic tests to determine whether patients are at risk for serious diseases like cancer, and whether...
by Danielle Bonadies | Sep 12, 2019 | News
Investigators at Ambry Genetics, the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, the University of Utah, and the University of California at Irvine have tapped into Ambry’s large collection of multigene panel test results to clarify hereditary cancer associations in high-risk...
by Danielle Bonadies | Jun 13, 2017 | Genetic Journal
On June 13, 2013, in the case of the Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc., the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that human genes cannot be patented in the U.S. because DNA is a “product of nature.” The Court decided that...
by Danielle Bonadies | Feb 16, 2016 | Genetic Journal
This is Stacey’s story of searching for a genetic explanation for the prevalence of breast cancer in her family. Genetic Counseling Note: When a patient tests ‘negative’ for genetic mutations, part of the genetic counseling process is to...
