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Will a New Mass. Law Discourage Women from Aborting Fetuses with Down Syndrome?
Of the myriad things that can go awry with pregnancy, Down syndrome is perhaps the best known. In the past year, several new tests have become available to detect the condition prenatally, as early as...
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TIME Explains: Genome Sequencing
Nearly every cell in the human body—from the ones in the fingernails to the ones deep inside the brain—contains a complete set of DNA, the operating instructions that influence everything from a...
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Will My Son Develop Cancer? The Promise (and Pitfalls) of Sequencing...
Can you imagine wanting to know whether your newborn baby will fall victim to Alzheimer’s disease decades down the road? What about cancer or diabetes? Emma Warin can. In August she gave birth to a...
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Test Your DNA for Diseases — No Doctor Required
When Anne Wojcicki’s son was a baby, she ran a swab across the inside of his cheek, collecting DNA to send to a lab. Last year, when she was pregnant with her daughter, she tested her amniotic cells....
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A Look Inside 23andMe’s Genetic Testing Lab
Get a behind-the-scenes look at the process of sequencing genomes by stepping inside a lab where DNA samples for 23andMe customers are processed.
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The Trouble with My Daughter’s DNA
By the time my first child was two months old, I knew something was wrong. Amanda, who is 14 now, has low muscle tone and didn’t walk until she was almost 2 years old. Her arms have limited ability,...
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What Your Doctor Isn’t Telling You About Your DNA
The test results were crystal clear, and still the doctors didn’t know what to do. A sick baby whose genome was analyzed at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia turned out to possess a genetic...
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Why Cheaper Genetic Testing Could Cost Us a Fortune
Dana Nieder was at a loss. Doctors had been trying to figure out what was wrong with her daughter Maya since she was 7 months old. Now 4 1/2, Maya didn’t learn to walk until long after her second...
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What’s Making Adam Sick? A Contest to Sequence Three Kids’ Genomes
For more than a decade, doctors have been trying to figure out what’s behind the weakness and fatigue that caused 11-year-old Adam Foye to miss 60 days of school last year. His symptoms match up with...
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Researchers Solve the Mystery of Child’s Illness
The mystery is over. Doctors now know what’s ailing Adam Foye. For Adam’s entire life (read his story here), doctors have been trying to figure out why his muscles are so weak that he can’t carry his...
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New Prenatal Test Could Improve Detection of Congenital Diseases
Would you want to know if your unborn baby is at risk of autism? Researchers wrapping up a 4,406-patient study say that a new genetic test that analyzes fetal DNA in more detail than current prenatal...
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‘Want to Know My Future’? Parents Grapple with Delving into Their Kids’ DNA
This week’s TIME cover story (available to subscribers here) asks a simple question with a complicated answer. Sophisticated DNA testing is allowing parents to learn more about the health of their...
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Could a Blood-Based Test Replace Amniocentesis?
A California company hopes to take the needles — and risk — out of prenatal genetic testing. Each year, about 200,000 amniocentesis tests are performed, according to the Mayo Clinic, most during the...
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Defending Kids with Down Syndrome: A Life Lesson on Vacation
On vacation last week in Hawaii, my family took a break from snorkeling azure waters to make a run for shave ice. (For the uninitiated, shave ice — Hawaiians drop the “d” — is the Rainbow State’s...
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‘Both My Sons Deserve to Live': A Mother’s Plea for Quicker Action from the FDA
Austin and Max Leclaire are brothers. Austin is older, Max is younger. Like most siblings, they have many things in common and just as many that set them apart. For now, though, their strongest bond is...
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New Guidelines for Genetic Testing in Children
Should worried parents be able to test their babies for diseases they may develop down the road, just because they’re curious? Should worried teens be able to screen themselves, without parental...
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Q&A: Author Emily Rapp Writes About Loving a Dying Baby
I had a hard time picking up Emily Rapp’s new book, The Still Point of the Turning World. It collected dust by my bedside for some weeks before I was able to power past the first few pages. Not because...
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Pro-Choice or No Choice? North Dakota Wants to Ban Abortion for Fetal...
Testing for fetal abnormalities can alert expectant parents to potential health problems to come. And it’s the parents who should decide on how to act on those results, right? Not necessarily. In North...
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Hard Choices Angelina Jolie Faces About Testing Her Kids for Breast Cancer Genes
Most women who get breast cancer each year have no family history, but Angelina Jolie’s story was different. Her mom died at age 56 of ovarian cancer, a related disease. Doing her best to make sure...
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Full Disclosure: Why Moms Share Results of Their Genetic Breast Cancer Tests...
Experts don’t advise that young children get tested for a well-known breast cancer gene mutation. But if mothers are tested, should they tell their kids, who have a chance of carrying the same...
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