Experts met at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today to discuss how curated databases could be used to establish the clinical relevance of genetic variations, and how the agency could use ...

Since the human genome was first sequenced in 2003, the world’s scientific community has been racing to decipher this “book” written in an alphabet of four letters. The applications of these ...

As a way to better the development of novel diagnostics to detect and diagnose genetic diseases, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Tuesday for the first time formally recognized a public ...

The initiative, supported by FAPESP, aims to map genes associated with rare hereditary diseases to create “risk calculators” based on the diversity of the Brazilian population.

Genetic information company 23andMe has said that it is headed to bankruptcy court, raising questions for what happens to the DNA shared by millions of people with the company via saliva test kits.

The announcement that 23andMe is filing for bankruptcy and has put its genetic genealogy database up for sale has sent its customers into a bit of a privacy tizzy. On March 21, California Attorney ...

Authorities touted the use of a growing, powerful, yet contentious forensic technique to bring the search for a suspect in last year's killing of Rachel Morin to a long-awaited close. Federal ...

Hundreds of millions of people worldwide are affected by rare diseases. Behind every case is a family enduring a diagnostic odyssey that can last for years. To improve how public health systems help ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Changes to a DNA database will likely affect cold case investigations. The site Ancestry.com recently tightened restrictions for law enforcement, requiring a court order ...

Genomic medicine could be the next big thing in healthcare. Some believe doctors may soon routinely use a patient's DNA to better diagnose conditions, prevent illness and predict the effectiveness of ...