As genetic analysis expands to serve everything from population-scale studies to precision-driven clinical decisions, laboratories are under growing pressure to move faster while managing increasingly ...

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The US Food and Drug Administration cleared a number of molecular tests and immunoassays, as well as a clinical chemistry and a cellular deformation test.

Internet users can't get enough of the "unhinged mix" of breeds that were revealed by Birdie's recent DNA test.

In the last decade, the drive to understand who we are and where we've come from has been accelerated by DNA testing.

Black patients and patients from socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods are dramatically under-represented in genetics clinics—often at rates half or less than those of white patients or ...

The medical examiner's office investigates approximately 40,000 deaths per year in New York City. Its molecular genetics laboratory, founded by Dr. Yingying Tang in 2003, is the only one of its kind ...

Brenna Henn had a long-term grant to study the genetic diversity of Africans and people of African descent. Then her N.I.H.

A woman's body has been found to consist of varying proportions of male and female cells because of an extremely rare form of ...

WIND GAP, Pa. — Genetic testing for medical purposes is known to be expensive, but a new community health research program is now offering lifesaving answers for free. When 38-year-old Nick Lumi first ...

Newborn babies admitted to the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) rely on the quick decisions and rapid action of the medical team responsible for them. DNA testing is critical to ...