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Should patients undergoing broad DNA testing for a specific ailment be told of unexpected findings that signal risk of cancer or other serious diseases, even if they don’t request the information?
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The Faroe Islands, a tiny, windswept land halfway between Scotland and Iceland, is so barren its 50,000 inhabitants import almost everything except fish and sheep. Now it wants to leap to the frontier of genetic medicine.
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Chinese stocks in New York rallied, led by Sina Corp. and solar companies, on speculation the cheapest valuations this year are luring investors amid the nation’s economic recovery.
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Tory Galloway thought her negative result on a widely-used test sold by Myriad Genetics Inc. cleared her DNA as a cause for her fallopian tube cancer.
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Gene-sequencing breakthroughs, spawning a fast-growing, multibillion-dollar market for drugs and medical tests, are also creating thorny questions over how to regulate commercial use of the human genetic code.
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Just the hint the Federal Reserve would end debt purchases that have supported bond prices sent Treasury yields soaring last month to the highest since April, a reaction that is unwarranted if money markets are a guide.
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Facebook Inc.’s deal to acquire Instagram, the mobile photo-sharing application, for about $1 billion in cash and stock, was done in a mere 54 hours said Facebook’s lead partner on the deal, Greg Roussel of Fenwick & West LLP.
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Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP sent a notice to employees May 4 warning it eventually may have to close if it can’t work out its financial difficulties, a person familiar with the matter said.
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Four gene-testing companies are misleading U.S. consumers by providing unclear or conflicting information on the risk of disease, according to a government investigator who sampled the services on the Internet.
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Technip SA, Europe’s second-largest oilfield-services provider, reported a 7.6 percent gain in first-quarter profit and record orders as energy producers seek to develop new reserves.
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