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Genetic Sequencing

ACMG Recommendations Are a Controversial but Necessary Step Towards Genomic Medicine

Robert C. Green, MD, MPH | Posted 05.03.2013 | Science
Read More: Incidental Findings, Genetics, Medicine, Genetic Sequencing, Human Genome, Acmg, Science News
Robert C. Green, MD, MPH

Doctors don't ask for your consent to look over the entire x-ray or make a note of the suspicious lesion. And they certainly don't sit you down before every exam, x-ray or lab test and have a long discussion about all the thousands of possible incidental findings that might show up.

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TED Talks: Anne Wojcicki Of 23AndMe Discusses Consumer Genomics (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Michael Macher | Posted 11.17.2012 | Technology
Read More: Wojcicki Ted Med, 23andme, Preventive Medicine, TED Talks, Preventive Care, Tedtalks, 23andme California, Genomics, Tedmed 2009, Tedmed, Human Genome, Genetic Sequencing, 23andme Ted Med, Video, Health, Health Care Reform, 23-and-Me, Consumer Genomics, Impactx, Genetics Disease, Health Care, Tedmed Anne Wojcicki, Technology News

Here's a question: If you could find out whether you were genetically predisposed to a life-altering disease like Alzheimer's or breast cancer, would ...

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Neanderthal Genes: The Hidden Thread in Our Tapestry

Athena Andreadis, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Read More: Language, Cavemen, Homo Sapiens, Neanderthals, Human-Specific Genes, Human Genome, Paleobiology, Genetic Sequencing, Dna, Europe, Interbreeding, Africa, Middle East, Sex, Mating, Technology News
Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.

The just-published draft sequence of the Neanderthal genome may reveal that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens indeed interbred when the latter first came out of Africa.

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There Aren't Enough Spidermen

Todd Palmer and Rob Pringle | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Green, Environment, Ecological Issues, Ecology, Biodiversity, Genetic Sequencing, Green News
Todd Palmer and Rob Pringle

We are spending more than $2 billion of US taxpayer money to send another rover to Mars next year, when so much of our own planet remains unexplored and unknown.

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Google Co-Founder Brin Discloses That He Is Vulnerable To Parkinson's

NY Times | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Dna, Parkinson's Disease, Sergey Brin, Google, Genetics, Genetic Sequencing, Business News

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Sergey Brin, a Google co-founder, said Thursday that he has a gene mutation that increases his likelihood of contracting Park...

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Genes at the Crossroads

Deepak Chopra | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Genetics, Genes, Biological Sciences, Science, Medicine, Human Genome, Genetic Sequencing, Healthy Living News
Deepak Chopra

Human behavior isn't complex the way a game of chess is, or the way the wiring is in a computer, for example. Human traits cannot be ascribed to one gene or even a large group.

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