On 7/15/2013, Myriad Genetics (MYGN) announced that it would offer financial assistance to the underinsured. It was also announced, on July 10, 2013, that the company had filed a suit against a competitor company, Ambry Genetics Corp., for infringing on ten of its patents surrounding its BRCA gene mutation testing services: Recently, Myriad Genetics Inc. […]
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Myriad Extends Patient Financial Assistance Program
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Myriad Genetics (MYGN): The Fight Continues
Today, Myriad Genetics (MYGN) disclosed that it, along with three other assignees (the University of Utah, the University of Pennsylvania and the Hospital for Sick Children, Endorecherche), had filed a patent infringement lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Utah against Ambry Genetics. The suit alleges that Ambry violated up to […]
Myriad Is Still On Top
Though some are viewing the recent U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling against the patenting of human genes as a loss for Myriad Genetics (MYGN), they fail to see the true results of the decision. In the end the court did, in fact, uphold Myriad’s patents given that it deemed cDNA (Complimentary DNA) to be patent eligible. […]
Myriad Genetics (MYGN): Knowledge Is Power!
Recently, Angelina Jolie announced that she underwent a prophylactic bi-lateral mastectomy in an effort to reduce her chances of being afflicted with breast cancer. Jolie’s mother, Marcheline Bertrand, died of ovarian cancer in 2007 at age 56, and Jolie’s maternal grandmother, who died in 1973 at age 45, was also diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Jolie’s […]
The Miracles Behind Genetic Testing
In the mid-1970’s Frederick Sanger, a British born biochemist and two-time recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, developed techniques to sequence Deoxyribonucleic acid – better known as DNA. Sanger’s work opened the door to that which may be the biggest boon to our current economy – and to our sheer survival. According to information provide […]
