Genetic testing can confirm a muscular dystrophy (MD) diagnosis when symptoms and other tests already suggest MD. It also identifies specific gene mutations that can guide targeted treatment. Genetic ...

A DNA test could help match patients with psychiatric medications, potentially reducing the long and frustrating ...

In 2023, Jill Martin took a test that changed her life. She underwent genetic testing for breast cancer and learned she had a BRCA2 mutation, which increases one’s risk of developing breast and other ...

Germline testing is a genetic screening that looks for inherited gene mutations found in every cell.  It can identify ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and genetic testing proved to be lifesaving for the women featured in this story. Jodi Lavery discovered she had a BRCA-2 gene mutation, ...

Merck, a leading global technology company with a U.S. laboratory in Rockville, launched the Aptegra CHO Genetic Stability Assay, which leverages whole-genome sequencing and bioinformatics to ...

When it came time to start a family, Sarah Elizabeth Orlando, 33, knew she would go about it differently. Before she was born, an in-utero amniocentesis had confirmed she carried the gene for fragile ...

A new study published in JCO Precision Oncology has identified a relatively simple method to predict the cancer patients most likely to develop severe toxicities from chemotherapy. If doctors can ...

PHILADELPHIA -- The first time the seemingly healthy woman gave birth, she went into heart failure. She recovered and went on to deliver her second child a few years later. Doctors cleared the woman ...