Link: Personalized medicine going to Congress
The New York Times reports on the new initiative to fund massive research on personalized medicine: “Obama to Request Research Funding for Treatments Tailore...
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"I am so happy that my genome didnt come back all normal"
Ed Yong has followed the touching story of the Grossman family, whose daughter Lilly has suffered throughout her life from a serious and unknown disorder: “W...
"No more complicated than setting up an Orange Julius franchise"
That quote is from Misha Angrist, about the coming genetic interpretation industry. It’s part of an essay by Virginia Hughes, in Slate: “Its Time To Stop Obs...
Metaphyseal fusion
Holly Dunsworth, whom readers will remember from my previous links to her work in genetics education, recounts a personal experience to show how the “inciden...
The cost of sequencing
In all the stories about the lowering cost of DNA sequencing, this NY Times contribution has to be the most heartbreaking: “Infant DNA Tests Speed Diagnosis ...
Personalized genomics beats personalized genetics
Joe Pickrell encountered sticker shock when faced with the prospect of a medical sequencing test: “The week that I worried I had a rare genetic disease”.