Qiagen NV concluded a review of potential alternatives, including a sale of the company, and determined that continuing to be a stand-alone business is the genetic testing firm’s best option.
CVS Health Corp. said the company will make it easier for patients with advanced cancer enrolled in some Aetna insurance plans to receive broad genetic gene sequencing tests that can help identify the best drug or treatment for them.
UTC Laboratories Inc. and the New Orleans-based genetics testing company’s three principals will pay $42.6 million to resolve charges they defrauded the federal government by paying kickbacks for referrals and billing for medically unnecessary tests, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
U.S. federal agents executed a warrant to search the Clio Laboratories in Georgia as part of a nationwide crackdown into genetic testing fraud against federal health insurance programs.
The advent of increasingly more mainstream and affordable genetic testing enables powerful genetic research – but that power is directly associated with the strength and diversity of the database of genetic information available.
LevLane has been named an agency of record for the launch of a new wellness testing product from Genomind.
Genome BC is investing in a cancer research project that aims to speed up genetic tests of tumors through the development of a robotics system.
