You know what I love, you take a company who is inferring that science IS clinical utility and then you hire them to perform interpretation on something that in it's current for is often...

I recently read a Times blog post by Mark Henderson because it was referenced by Dan Vorhaus on Twitter. I have to say, I am blown away by the cognitive dissonance here...... entitled " The end of deCODE genetics: are you worried about who holds your...

Today's lesson in start up business in the field of DTC Genomics is this..... Stay Private and Stay Alive. IPO and doom yourself to a painful and public death. Huh? Ah, yes our first DTC Genomics venture is going to be restructured to someone else and...

I have been railing the last few days so I want to take a step back and examine what exactly is happening in the DTC Genomics space. (By no means an exhaustive list) Navigenics-Partnering with a concierge medicine group of Internal Medicine...

"As I had postulated before, in order to move towards a profitable direction the DTC companies would have to choose "Medically Relevant" or "Novelty Testing" From this recent email sent to me by a reader it is clear, 23andME is Choosing to become a...

Is it any surprise that insurance companies have no clue what the hell is going on with genetic testing? You see, there are a set of ICD9 codes that can mean 2C19 testing or hepatitis pcr........ The coding system doesn't allow the companies to...