{"id":35938,"date":"2017-04-06T12:42:29","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T19:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/the-fda-just-greenlit-the-first-consumer-dna-tests-for-disease-risk"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:05:54","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:05:54","slug":"the-fda-just-greenlit-the-first-consumer-dna-tests-for-disease-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/the-fda-just-greenlit-the-first-consumer-dna-tests-for-disease-risk","title":{"rendered":"The FDA Just Greenlit the First Consumer DNA Tests for Disease Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-fda-just-greenlit-the-first-consumer-dna-tests-for-disease-risk.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At times, DNA testing can feel more <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/the-next-pseudoscience-health-craze-is-all-about-geneti-1792194708\" rel=\"nofollow\">like horoscopes<\/a> than science. In many cases, we just don\u2019t know enough about a gene to say what it means for our health. For this reason, the Food and Drug Administration has sought to protect consumers by preventing DNA testing companies from telling them whether or not they\u2019re are at risk for a certain disease. Until now.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/the-fda-just-greenlit-the-first-consumer-dna-tests-for-1794080190?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_facebook&utm_source=gizmodo_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow\">http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/the-fda-just-greenlit-the-first-consumer-...socialflow<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At times, DNA testing can feel more like horoscopes than science. In many cases, we just don\u2019t know enough about a gene to say what it means for our health. For this reason, the Food and Drug Administration has sought to protect consumers by preventing DNA testing companies from telling them whether or not they\u2019re [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":360,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35938"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58151,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35938\/revisions\/58151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}