Growth of Genetic Tests Concerns Federal Panel
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Regulation and oversight has not kept pace with the development of new genetic tests and efforts to sell them directly to consumers.
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CHICAGO While advances in genetic testing may be beneficial, they sometimes put doctors between a rock and a hard place. If physicians find a disease that&#39;s inherited, do they warn other family members that they, too, could be affected?
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A new non-invasive test that examines  fetal DNA can pick up genetic abnormalities such as Down's  syndrome, researchers said on Friday.
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Some outside scientists wondered whether a Department of Veterans Affairs panel was stretching thin data to tell veterans what they wanted to hear in the committee's recent report.
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A growing number of couples are screening embryos to detect a predisposition to cancers that may or may not develop later in life.
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3D scans of faces are set to speed up the diagnosis of rare genetic conditions, scientists say.
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A race to pursue DNA-based indictments has made apparent that no matter how sophisticated the science of DNA, a genetic profile is less than half the battle.
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A genetic profiling test already on the market accurately predicts which breast cancer patients will benefit from chemotherapy and which won&#39;t, giving
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WEDNESDAY, Jan. 16 (HealthDay News) -- A new genetic test that helps assess the risk of tumor recurrence and long-term survival for patients with relatively high-risk breast cancer has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
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A difference of opinion about the genetic basis of race has emerged between scientists at the National Human Genome Center at Howard University and some other geneticists.
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A genetic blood test allowing a much closer match between donors and recipients is under development.
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A national debate has erupted over whether the rapid expansion in work with dangerous pathogens is adequately regulated and scientifically justified.
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If the cost of sequencing a human genome can drop to $1,000 or below, experts say it would start to become feasible to tell what diseases people might be at risk for.
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Scientists identify four more genes that increase breast cancer risk using a method that could help improve tests.
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Women with few older female relatives may be unaware they carry a genetic risk of breast cancer, US researchers reported in a study that casts doubt on current genetic testing guidelines.
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Dec.10, 2004 (San Antonio) -- A test that characterizes each breast tumor by its unique genetic fingerprint could spare tens of thousands of American women from the discomfort and misery of chemotherapy, researchers report.
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A panel of leading computer scientists warned in a report issued on Monday that unless the federal government significantly increased support for advanced research on