Genetic Testing

Genetic Testing Is Providing New Hope for Babies

By Alice Park

How Scientists Think CRISPR Will Change Medicine

By Alexandra Sifferlin

Genetic Testing Company 23andMe Returns to Market

By Alice Park

Genetic Testing in Newborns Gets a Critical Breakthrough

By Alice Park
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Genetic Test Impacts Chemo Choices In Surprising Ways

A study investigates for the first time how a gene-based test is affecting women’s decisions to get chemotherapy

By Alice Park

Here's How 23andMe Hopes to Make Drugs From Your Spit Samples

The company is making a bold move to enter the drug-making business by using the genetic information donated by its clients

By Alice Park

Home Test For Bloom Syndrome Approved

Similar genetic testing devices will also soon be exempt from the FDA's premarket review protocols

By David Stout

Genetic Testing Company 23andMe Finds New Revenue With Big Pharma

The company’s database of genetic information is worth $10 million to Genentech

By Alice Park

Here’s How Well Your Genes Can Predict Your Breast Cancer Risk

Researchers say genetic sequencing can predict breast cancer risk better than previously thought

By Alice Park

When Will I Die? How I Decided Whether to Test for Early-Onset Alzheimer's

The disease killed my father. At 39, I had to choose how much I wanted to know about my own fate

By Matthew Thomas

The Thorny Ethics of Prenatal Testing

Genetic screening and the need to speak candidly

By Erik Parens

Before Angelina: Portraits of Breast Cancer Previvors and Survivors

In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, TIME photographed 15 women who chose to have preventative double mastectomies after learning they carry the BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations, years before Angelina Jolie’s New York Times Op-ed...

By Alexandra Sifferlin

The DNA Dilemma: A Test That Could Change Your Life

Know your enemy, we tell ourselves; knowledge is power. Laurie Hunter wanted to know what disease was attacking her daughter Amanda, who by the age of 2 months was not developing normally. Her muscle tone...

By Bonnie Rochman
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