I was one of the first to spit into a test tube, giving up my DNA forever to learn more about my health and heredity. You know, the ones that promise to connect you with distant relatives you didn’t ...

Genetic testing is rapidly moving genomics from a niche specialty to becoming more integrated into mainstream clinical practice. Once deployed primarily to diagnose rare and inherited conditions after ...

Today, healthcare is shifting away from a one-size-fits-all approach toward personalized medicine designed around each person’s genetics, lifestyle, and health history. At St. Elizabeth Healthcare, ...

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic has begun integrating action items from genetic tests into health records for more than 100,000 patients who participated in an exome study for biomedical ...

Drs Kevin Alexander and Joban Vaishnav explore when and how to use genetic testing in ATTR-CM, why distinguishing hereditary from wild-type disease matters, and what this means for patients' families.

A new global review shows that countries are taking very different approaches to regulating polygenic embryo testing. For more than four decades, in vitro fertilization (IVF) has helped families have ...