Category Archives: Biotech

Get ready for PGD, the acronym for preimplantation genetic diagnosis. We don’t really talk about “test tube babies” anymore. It’s “IVF,” and as American as apple pie (OK, perhaps as Israeli as falafel). Here’s the Ngrams result: It’s just not that big of a deal anymore. But take a look at the order articles in The […]

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If anyone works at, or knows someone who works at, Genzyme Oncology in San Antonio, can you contact me? I have a few questions. Any of these methods will work:

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Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Tests Neither Accurate in Their Predictions nor Beneficial to Individuals, Study Suggests:
Direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic tests give inaccurate predictions of disease risks and many European geneticists believe that some of…

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Josh Roseneau, when he’s taking time off from the evolution-creation wars, is poking around his own genome. Some sage advice:
On DNA Day, 23 and Me had a sale on their personal genomics service. They’d do their standard scan of your genome …

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Razib Khan