Silicon Valley’s murky push to predict your health with your DNA
Co.Exist,
The commercial rush is raising tension between scientists seeking new genetic links and entrepreneurs seeking profit. To hear…
The commercial rush is raising tension between scientists seeking new genetic links and entrepreneurs seeking profit. To hear…
An international multidisciplinary group of experts in genetics, law, ethics, behavioral sciences, and other fields reviews the…
by Alex Yenkinfigures by Allie…
These tests make bold predictions about a child’s future—but they’re ahead of the science.
If you haven’t heard about Clubhouse yet… well, it’s the latest Silicon Valley unicorn, and the popular new chat hole for…
Last month, a vast international consortium led by Simon Mead pre-printed the first genome-wide association study (GWAS) to…
The wealth of information available to researchers through UK Biobank is powering studies into human health and disease
(Arek Socha, Pixabay) 29 Mar. 2019. Techniques analyzing data from across the genome that reveal risks of diseases, better…
Scores for predicting disease risk based on genetics are on average almost five times less accurate for people of African…
23andMe’s new type 2 diabetes report* offers customers insight into their likelihood of developing one of the most prevalent…
Debate wages on over how much genes influence risk of heart…
Mass General is home to a vast community of researchers studying the causes of heart disease and working to develop new…
I pass on the text of this piece from Gina Kolata, and then the abstract of the article by Khera et al. she is referencing: By…
Riscos de doenças ocultas são reveladas em testes de variantes comuns de DNA; pesquisadores trabalham para trazê-los para a clíni…
DMT users are building a “psychedelic temple” on a site in upstate New York that “aligns with the solar plexus of a projected…
By Cheryl Platzman Weinstock (Reuters Health) – Subtle variations in millions of genes contribute to individual risk for common…
The figures below are from the recent paper Genome-wide polygenic scores for common diseases identify individuals with risk…
It seems to me we are just at the tipping point — soon it will be widely understood that with large enough data sets we can…
Looking at data from 6.6 million spots in the genome, Boston area researchers have found ways to identify genetic risk for…