10 Countries in 100K Genome Club
These ten governments have committed funding for projects that will sequence a minimum of 100,000 citizens to spur genomic medicine
UnitedHealthcare To Cover Genetic Testing for Precision Medicine in Depression, Anxiety
The nation’s largest private health insurer, UnitedHealthcare, announced August 1 that it will cover testing that will allow physicians to match their patients to...
Top 10 Sequencing Companies
Five years after the introduction of the $1,000 genome, the sequencing field remains rife with chatter about pushing the cost much lower—not only to $100...
EMBL-EBI Launches Free Genetic Disease Diagnostic Software
Researchers at the University of Edinburgh and the European Bioinformatics Institute at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL-EBI) have introduced a new diagnostic genome-wide...
Mining the Microbiome: Microbiome startups are proliferating, exploring new markets, and colonizing diverse therapeutic...
It would be hard to find an area of health where the microbiome has not been implicated as a major player. The microbiome is...
Coffee Improves Gut Motility by Altering Gut Microbiota
Data presented yesterday at the Digestive Disease Week (DDW) 2019 Conference by researchers from University of Texas, Galveston, suggest that the effects of coffee...
![A liquid biopsy test has detected changes in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes associated with ovarian and breast cancer that signal when the disease stops responding to treatment through platinum chemotherapy or poly ADP-ribose polymerase (PARP) inhibitors. [Source: © freshidea/Fotolia]](https://www.clinicalomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/1322-218x150.jpeg "Ovarian Cancer Blood Test May Eliminate Need for Diagnostic Exploratory Surgery")
Ovarian Cancer Blood Test May Eliminate Need for Diagnostic Exploratory Surgery
Scientists at Uppsala University and the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg say they have developed a blood test that may provide a more precise...
Are Dogs the New Early Cancer Detection Tool?
A dog’s sense of smell—more than 10,000 times more sensitive than that of our own—has been exploited by humans for centuries. Whether it is...
Invitae Offers Free Genetic Testing for Four Conditions
Invitae said it is offering for free its Detect genetic testing programs for four conditions: Muscular dystrophy, hereditary prostate cancer, familial cardiomyopathy and arrhythmia,...
Clinical Urologists Group Supports Genomic Testing for Prostate Cancer
AACU statement encourages use of tissue-based molecular testing and/or germline testing for three groups of prostate cancer patients
