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CRISPR: Considering (What May Be) the World’s First Designer Babies

by Eleanor Griffith | Dec 17, 2018 | Direct-To-Consumer Testing, Emerging Evidence, For Healthcare Providers

NEWS CORNER CRISPR: Considering (What May Be) the World’s First Designer Babies Guest post by Shannon Trujillo On November 25th, 2018, a Chinese researcher claimed to have been the first person in the world to have successfully used the DNA-editing technique known as...

A Reflection On the NSGC 2018 Conference

by Eleanor Griffith | Nov 21, 2018 | Direct-To-Consumer Testing, Emerging Evidence, For Healthcare Providers

NEWS CORNER A Reflection On the NSGC 2018 Conference by Daniel Luksic Last week, I was a first time attendee of the National Society of Genetic Counselors annual conference. This conference is held once a year and is a national assembly of those who work in the field...

Nobody Likes Uncertainty

by Eleanor Griffith | Oct 26, 2018 | Breast Cancer, Cancer Genetics, For Healthcare Providers, For Patients

NEWS CORNER Nobody Likes Uncertainty Guest post by Marisa Vomvos, M.S. On October 16th, 2018, the New York Times published an article about variants of uncertain significance in genetic test results [1]. This article made reference to a study by researchers at Myriad...

Missing Opportunities to Prevent Ovarian Cancer

by Eleanor Griffith | Sep 13, 2018 | For Patients

NEWS CORNER Missing Opportunities to Prevent Ovarian Cancer Approximately 1 in 5 women diagnosed with ovarian cancer have an inherited mutation in a gene that helps explain why ovarian cancer was developed. About two-thirds of the time, the mutation will be found in...

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CRISPR: Considering (What May Be) the World’s First Designer Babies

A Reflection On the NSGC 2018 Conference

Nobody Likes Uncertainty

Missing Opportunities to Prevent Ovarian Cancer

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