News in Brief Searching for Biomarkers to Diagnose Mental Illness New research is working toward creating simple physical tests that could shed light on diseases like anxiety and depression. Matthew Scult
Social Justice Making It Personal: Geneticist Michael Snyder Puts a Face on Personalized Medicine The single participant in a groundbreaking—and controversial—study is forcing clinicians to confront the thorny ethical issues surrounding the sequencing of individual genomes to offer a glimpse at what the future of medicine may look like. Kayt Sukel