Genomic News

When Genomic Science meets Society Needs In this age of the global pandemic, the field of healthcare and medicine have been pushed to the forefront in order to combat the rising threat against [...]

Precision medicine not only promises better treatment, but cost effective healthcare. A new economic model has shown that broad NGS screening not only improves speed to diagnosis; it also lowers [...]

DNA isolated from a small sample of saliva or blood can yield information, fairly inexpensively, about a person’s relative risk of developing dozens of diseases or medical conditions. If [...]

CHICAGO (GenomeWeb) – Results presented over the weekend at the American Society for Clinical Oncology annual meeting have closed the file on a long unanswered question for Genomic Health’s [...]

A revolutionary treatment ‘personalised’ to patients for their own cancer can increase their chances of survival by six times. Treatment tailored to cancer patients has been described [...]

A new quantitative era is emerging for digital health, AI, social networks, analytics and precision medicine that will eclipse the disease industry that exists today. The convergence of [...]

Fifteen years ago this month, the full human genome sequence was published for the first time, heralding a new era of medicine. Since then technology has markedly speeded up genomic sequencing [...]

The number of pregnancies affected by cystic fibrosis, fragile-X syndrome and spinal muscular atrophy, when grouped together, is comparable to the risk for Down syndrome, Australian research has [...]

We see a growing number of children being born with genetic disorders these days. According to World Health Organization (WHO), Genetic disorders affect 10 in every 1000 newborn babies. Here we [...]

US technology policy expert Alex Ross said that the last trillion-dollar industry was built on computer code and the next trillion-dollar industry will be built on genetic code. And Canadian [...]