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Will the FDA Regulate Just Genetic Risk Data, or All Risk Data?

Posted on January 16, 2014 by David Dobbs / 1 Comment

The latest in the 23andme versus FDA saga, in which the FDA halted 23andme from offering health-risk analyses of the genotyping service the company sells, comes...

Biotech/Genetics/Healthcare policy

23andMe Ceases Providing Health-Risk Info; Ancestry Only Now

Posted on December 5, 2013 by David Dobbs / 2 Comments

The company announced today that in reaction to the FDA’s order to marketing health-related information based on its genetic testing, it will cease provid...

Biology/Biotech/Culture of Science/Genetics/Healthcare policy/History of science/Medicine

Is The National Cancer Institute Telling Me to Remove My Breasts?

Posted on December 2, 2013 by David Dobbs / 2 Comments

One of the key issues in the dust-up over the FDA’s insistence on regulating 23andMe’s service  is the question of how 23andMe’s health-risk r...

Biology/Biotech/Culture of Science/Genetics/Healthcare policy/History of science/Medicine/Uncategorized

I Got Your 23andMe – FDA Food Fight Links Right Here

Posted on November 30, 2013 by David Dobbs / 11 Comments

Below find my ever-growing annotated collection of online responses to the FDA’s recent shot across the bow of 23andMe, the consumer genetics company. Unt...

Biology/Biotech/Culture of Science/Genetics/History of science

What Does the FDA Want From 23andMe?

Posted on November 29, 2013 by David Dobbs / 1 Comment

Here’s a particularly sharp, context-rich post on that question from  from Margaret Curnutte, currently of Baylor University. It seems one of the more dee...

Culture of Science/Uncategorized

The Case for Selective Paternalism in Genetic Testing

Posted on January 14, 2013 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

In the world of genetic testing, how much information is too much? Genetic counselor Laura Hercher argues that sometimes, selectivity is merited.

Culture of Science/Uncategorized

Embrace Your Dangerous Genome

Posted on January 9, 2013 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Virginia Hughes is “sick of reading about the dangers of the genome.” So she complains over at Slate, eloquently, and I’m sick right with her....

Uncategorized

Does Your Genetic Information Long to Be Free? You’re fixin’ to find out

Posted on December 16, 2010 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

John Hawks ponders the day, very soon to come, when high school students will run their genome sequences in bio lab instead of their blood types. He’s rif...

Culture of Science/Medicine

Your genetic info — not free, easy, or clear

Posted on July 7, 2010 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

This isn't something we'll figure out in a couple workshops; it's something the industry and the broader genomics community will need to consider carefully over...

Uncategorized

Choosing not to use genetic testing is an option. Ignorance isn’t.

Posted on March 23, 2010 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Daniel McArthur and Daniel Vorhaus have a beef: Earlier this month, the Sunday Times published an op-ed piece by Camilla Long critiquing the practice and busine...

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I write features, reviews, and essays for The New York Times, Write My Essays, National Geographic, EssayTigers, Aeon, Slate, EvolutionWriters, Chegg, Write My Paper and other companies and publications. I am also the author of three books, as well as the Atavist hit My Mother’s Lover, which tells the long-hidden story of my mother's secret WWII affair with a flight surgeon. MML became a # 1 best-selling Kindle Single and was chosen in 2014 by readers as their favorite Atavist publication.

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