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I am very pleased to announce that two wonderfully accomplished clinical people have joined DNA Direct. Trisha Brown is our new VP of Clinical Affairs, and Cynthia Kane is our new Clinical Director.

On the DNA Direct Experts page, you can see Trish and Cynthia’s smiling faces and read their detailed bios. You can lso download DNA Direct’s press release about our new clinical folks, and read what they have to say about us.

Personally, I can say that they’re even warmer in person than online. I can sum up my excitement for Trish’s leadership in two words: personalized medicine. If you are in need of genetic counseling, you’d do well to have Cynthia on the other end of your telephone line. Now, to enlist them for some guest blog posts… (cue evil laughter)

In other news, DNA Direct was featured in The Economist — “Storm in a test tube” explores controversy surrounding the growing genetic testing industry, including issues of privacy, insurance and medical guidelines. Our home paper, the San Francisco Chronicle gave us unexpected airtime in an article on paternity testing.

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There is an old saying, “the more you know, the more you know you don’t know.” That’s why now is such an exciting time in the science of genetics and genomics. This week we heard all about how the genome has been sequenced, again.

For the average gal on the street, you may be wondering “Why do I keep reading about how the human genome has been sequenced, again and again? Wasn’t that done years ago? And then wasn’t it done again, with James Watson, one of they guys who discovered DNA?” The details, as with credit card accounts, are in the fine print.

When thinking about DNA and genomes, particularly the human genome, there are all sorts of complicated, creative, beautiful and happenstance things that can happen to DNA that create our own, personal and unique genomes. (more…)