We all recently heard about the warning letters sent from the state of California to firms selling online personal DNA sequencing over the Internet, and requiring a physician’s prescription for the service. One company DeCode, has taken the letter to heart and is revising their marketing plant...
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What can happen with clinical trials, the death of one participant, which has not been fully determined as to whether or not the drug was the cause, puts a halt to the study. Something to keep in mind when considering volunteering for a study, there are no guarantees here. This also makes...
The article states it was about time to update the female side of things after successfully sequencing 4 males...we all know the female side of things is just a big more complicated...BD Dutch scientists said they have completed the first sequencing of an individual woman's DNA. The researchers at...