Medicare lab spending totaled $8.4 billion in 2024, up 5 percent year over year, with $3.6 billion of that spent on genetic testing, an increase of 20 percent over 2023.

The Laboratory Genetics and Genomics (LGG) fellowship offered at the UAB Department of Genetics is accredited by the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). This is a three-year ...

Decoding Our Own Genome: Our genomes carry the story of evolution, written in DNA, the language of molecular genetics, and the narrative is unmistakable. With over 30 million variants in the human ...

Euan Ashley's lab explores the intricate interactions of gene variants. Tiny "typos," or genetic mutations, can sneak into segments of DNA. Many of these are harmless, but some can cause health ...

In a recent blog, I discussed the change in nomenclature for the conditions formerly known as Neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2) and schwannomatosis. This change was based on the results of an ...

Each year, the ACMG Foundation for Genetic and Genomic Medicine grants its Next Generation fellowship awards to promising early career professionals in a range of medical genetics and genomics ...