All Articles on Genetics

• Supreme Court ruling on DNA matches Group Health ethic

  The court decided “a naturally occurring DNA segment is a product of nature and not patent-eligible merely because it has been isolated.” Many people at public-interest research organizations like GHRI, universities, and the NIH cheered this decision.
• Genetic testing may not trigger more use of health services

  People have more and more chances to participate in genetic testing that can indicate their range of risk for developing a disease. Receiving these results does not appreciably drive up—or diminish—test recipients’ demand for potentially costly follow-up health services, according to a new study in the May 17, 2012 early online issue of Genetics in Medicine.
• Group Health part of UW's new Northwest Institute for Genetic Medicine

  On April 18, 2008, the Life Sciences Discovery Fund (LSDF) granted University of Washington (UW) scientists and researchers a $5.3 million, four-year grant to support the translation of human genetic research into clinical medicine. The grant will be used to launch the Northwest Institute of Genetic Medicine, a collaborative effort between researchers at the UW, Seattle Children's Hospital Research Institute, Group Health, and local biotechnology companies.