Art and Science of Laboratory Medicine

Art and Science of Laboratory Medicine

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

BRCA Breakthroughs?

Silicon Valley-based Color Genomics will offer genetic screening of saliva samples for BRCA mutations associated with elevated breast and ovarian cancer risk for $249, a fraction of the current price, the firm announced this week (April 20). Separately, the French medical research institution Inserm and Quest Diagnostics today (April 21) introduced BRCA Share, a private-public partnership to collect data on BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations to determine the impact of uncharacterized mutations on cancer risk.

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BRCA Breakthroughs? 

Source: The Scientist Magazine


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