Boston researchers using COVID-19 patients’ DNA to unlock secrets about impact of virus
Boston 25 News |
June 2020
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Boston researchers using COVID-19 patients’ DNA to unlock secrets about impact of virus
COVID-19
Biobanks could identify medically actionable findings relevant for COVID-19 clinical care
Nature Medicine
June 2020
Hospital records hold valuable Covid-19 data. Making it usable is time-consuming work
STAT |
May 2020
Press
To help scientists around the globe study Covid-19, researchers in Boston have shared genetic and other clinical data from thousands of patients with an international consortium. That data includes information from dozens of people with Covid-19, who had donated blood samples and opened up their medical records before the pandemic.
Genetic counselors and the fight for medicare recognition
Medium |
May 2020
G2P Blog
Elizabeth Fieg, MS, LCGC discusses the importance and implication of the H.R. 3235-The Access to Genetic Counselor Service Act that would authorize and recognize appropriately credentialed genetic counselors as reimbursable providers under Medicare.
The COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative, a global initiative to elucidate the role of host genetic factors in susceptibility and severity of the SARS-CoV-2 virus pandemic
European Journal of Human Genetics
May 2020
Coronavirus, the answer may be in your genes
Fox News |
May 2020
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What do your genetics have to do with your chances of dying from Coronavirus?
Vanity Fair |
April 2020
Press
Our genes might make some of us more susceptible to COVID-19—but which genes? Geneticists are sharing their vast DNA databases to find out.
Heroes on the front line: Dr. Robert Green
Blue Cross Blue Shield Massachusetts |
April 2020
Press
“..There are researchers – every single scientist is thinking ‘how can I contribute?’”
Coronavirus: Genes may explain why some face greater danger than others
Fox News |
April 2020
Press
“While healthy young people as a group are less likely to have severe symptoms with COVID, they have to understand that some of them will become very ill and will even die from this infection,” Dr. Robert Green said. “No one should assume youth makes them invulnerable.”
