GENETIC TESTING

FDA green-lights more 23andMe genetic tests

Xavier Symons | 07 April 2017 | Comments

tags: 23andme, genetic testing, law, us

A new set of 23andMe genetic tests have been authorised by the FDA.

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New bill may give employers a mandate solicit genetic information

Xavier Symons | 18 March 2017 | Comments

tags: genetic testing, genetics and law, us

A new bill may allow US companies to ‘fine’ employees for failing to provide genetic information.

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Canada passes genetic ‘anti-discrimination’ law

Xavier Symons | 10 March 2017 | Comments

tags: canada, discrimination, genetic testing, human rights, privacy

Canada has passed a new law that prevents corporations from demanding genetic information from potential employees or customers.

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Kuwait becomes first country to demand universal DNA tests

Michael Cook | 27 August 2016 | Comments

tags: genetic privacy, genetic testing, kuwait

Is its goal defeating terrorism or expelling a minority group?

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Silicon Valley becomes a bioethical testing ground

Michael Cook | 07 November 2015 | Comments

tags: 23andMe, clinical trials, genetic testing, internet, Silicon Valley

Internet giants move into medical research.

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Canadian bioethicist questions value of Down syndrome detection

Michael Cook | 23 May 2015 | Comments

tags: Down syndrome, genetic testing

Questions about “a ‘corporate arms race’ to develop prenatal tests for Down syndrome

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23andMe branches into pharma

Xavier Symons | 21 March 2015 | Comments

tags: 23andMe, Big Pharma, genetic testing

It will set up its own pharmaceutical wing to identify new drug targets for both common and rare diseases.

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Genetic testing backfires

Michael Cook | 28 September 2014 | Comments

tags: 23andMe, genetic testing, paternity tests

You cannot possibly improve on this headline: “With genetic testing, I gave my parents the gift of divorce”.

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New service creates virtual babies for worried mothers

Michael Cook | 11 April 2014 | Comments

tags: genetic screening, genetic testing

An American businesswoman and an Ivy League scientist have teamed up to create a sophisticated service for reducing genetic diseases for lesbian couples and single women.

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Savulescu - We have a moral obligation to increase the intelligence of our children

Xavier Symons | 28 March 2014 | Comments

tags: embryo screening, genetic testing, intelligence, Julian Savulescu

Oxford bioethicist Julian Savulescu calls for genetic screening of the unborn for IQ genes.

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Is sport just about genetic luck?

Xavier Symons | 07 September 2013 | Comments

tags: genetic testing, sports

Journalist Malcolm Gladwell asks whether sport is really a competition, or whether it is simply a matter of 'genetic luck'.

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Ancestry testing is “genetic astrology”, says UK geneticist

Michael Cook | 03 March 2013 | Comments

tags: ancestry testing, genetic testing

Companies around the world are springing up to sell genetic ancestry testing, to the enrichment of some geneticists and the dismay of others.

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Telling the truth in Saudi Arabia

Michael Cook | 27 October 2012 | Comments

tags: genetic testing, misattributed paternity, privacy, Saudi Arabia

A case history from King Abdullah International Medical Research Centre, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, about telling the truth.

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I’m not the Nazi; you’re the Nazi

Michael Cook | 10 October 2012 | Comments

tags: eugenics, genetic testing, Julian Savulescu

Julian Savulescu, the utilitarian bioethicist at Oxford University, has the perfect riposte when his opponents tell him that his proposals for genetic selection remind them of Nazi eugenics.

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Doctors could screen for gay genes in near future

Michael Cook | 10 August 2012 | Comments

tags: gay gene, genetic testing

Within a few years, parents may be able to screen embryos and foetuses for the “gay gene”, according to a Columbia University bioethicist.

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A community’s take on genetic tests

Jared Yee | 13 July 2012 | Comments

tags: genetic diseases, genetic screening, genetic testing, Judaism, US

Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn are wrestling with the question of genetic testing -- and what should and should not be revealed to people who use it.

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Hungarian “racial purity” genome test slammed

Jared Yee | 23 June 2012 | Comments

tags: genetic testing, genetics, racism

The Hungarian Medical Research Council (ETT), which advises the government on health policy, has asked public prosecutors to investigate a genetic-testing company that confirmed that a member of parliament was of pure Hungarian stock and did not have Jewish or Roma heritage.

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Children with 3 parents could become a reality

Jared Yee | 09 June 2012 | Comments

tags: genetic diseases, genetic parentage, genetic screening, genetic testing, UK

Children with three genetic parents could become reality in the UK.

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A race against time for Down syndrome research

Michael Cook | 20 August 2011 | Comments

tags: Down syndrome, genetic testing

Is it possible to cure Down syndrome? Alberto Costa, a 48-year-old physician and neuroscientist at University of Colorado-Denver School of Medicine, thinks so. He has started a clinical trial on young adults with Down syndrome to see if the drug memantine helps them become “smarter”. It is the first randomized clinical trial ever to take a drug that worked in mice with Down syndrome and apply it to humans.

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New test reveals fetus’ sex as early as 7 weeks

Jared Yee | 12 August 2011 | Comments

tags: Arthur Caplan, genetic testing, genetic tests, prenatal testing, sex selection

A new, highly accurate, blood test can determine a baby’s sex as early as 7 weeks into the pregnancy.

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