During the Boston Globe’s Rare Disease Summit, Dr. Wendy Chung, a physician-scientist and geneticist who leads the Department ...

For more than six decades, biomarker-based newborn screening has played a pivotal role in reducing infant mortality and ...

St. Louis Families Unite for Rare Disease Day 2026 as Take Part Foundation Advances Critical Genetic Testing and ...

Adding genomic sequencing to newborn blood screening would detect hundreds of additional childhood conditions, providing much earlier diagnosis and treatment, according to a new study. A baby’s genome ...

But they disagree on whether studying social genomics—elucidating any potential genetic contributions to behaviors ranging from mental illnesses to educational attainment to political affiliation—can ...

A large Australian pilot shows that testing healthy young adults for high-risk genes can reveal serious disease risk years before symptoms appear, challenging traditional family history–based genetic ...

Collaboration, partnership, and clinical integration are key.

In response, Vermont lawmakers are considering a consumer protection bill that would regulate how genetic testing companies collect, use and share Vermonters’ data. An amended version of the bill was ...

The full House on Tuesday advanced a bill, which passed out of Marcotte’s committee last week, that would require genetic testing companies to get “a consumer’s express consent” each time their ...