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So Much Genetic Testing. So Few People to Explain It to You

So Much Genetic Testing. So Few People to Explain It to You

So Much Genetic Testing. So Few People to Explain It to You

Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer

October 17, 20185m 48s

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Show Notes

When Dan Riconda graduated with a master’s degree in genetic counseling from Sarah Lawrence College in 1988, the Human Genome Project was in its very first year, DNA evidence was just beginning to enter the courts, and genetic health tests weren’t yet on the market. He found one of the few jobs doing fetal diagnostics for rare diseases, which often meant helping young families through the worst time in their lives. What a difference 20 years makes.

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