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Testing Children for “Sports” Gene?

This is pretty controversial in essence, if you have ever watched parent already getting pretty steamed up at baseball and soccer games, so next we could easily have some heated discussions on how long each child can play with parents feuding over who...

Published Sun, Nov 11 2008 5:28 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, DNA, Genomics, healthcare, children

OralDNA to Distribute Periodontal Disease Genetic Test in US - DNA at the Dentist's Office

Dentists now are coming in to the fold of DNA genomics tests. This test is very specific to assess risk for periodontal disease, so as a younger patient, as chances are as we age if we are at risk we may already have this, this could be a good indicator...

Published Thu, Aug 08 2008 10:12 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, DNA, Genomics, Dentist, Periodontal Disease

A Woman With Male Chromosomes? What's in that DNA report?

An interesting story on what a DNA report can reveal, in this case the woman has an X and a Y, instead of two Xs, like most females. It is somewhat rare but does exist with having internal testicles, and this produces extra high levels of estrogen...

Published Mon, Aug 08 2008 12:32 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, DNA, healthcare, Biotech, Science, Pharmacogenomics, Biomed, Chromosomes

New Prostate Cancer Test is Ready for Commercialization - Personalized Medicine

After all the recent news about the PSA test, here's a genomics answer. The MD Anderson Cancer Center, demonstrated a very high success rate for identifying the presence of Grade 3 or higher prostate cancer cells. The new prostate cancer...

Published Thu, Aug 08 2008 2:46 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, personalized medicine, DNA, Genomics, Prostate Cancer, Pharmacogenomics, PSA, Cancer Test

Broad Institute Makes Genomics Data Viewer Public - Free software download...

The software offers both detailed, localized views of genomic data, and a whole genome view, in a format somewhat similar to the way Google presents items on the web. It is free to download and use. There are also some sample data files available...

Published Wed, Aug 08 2008 2:26 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, DNA, Genomics, Research, Pharmacogenomics, MIT, Biomed, Broad Institute, Harvard

“Swapping Spit”: DNA matching for singles

This gives a whole new meaning to the old redneck slang term of “swapping spit”. One more way to market oneself through genetics and single life. One question comes to mind, can they do this in California and New York? Even though the...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2008 3:18 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Technology, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, DNA, Genomics, Dating

deCode Genetics – Chief Scientific Officer – DNA Test may have saved his life…Prostate Cancer Diagnosis as a result

An executive of the company had his own DNA tested and the results were shocking and unexpected to say the least. Recently deCode Genetics spoke about working more with physicians in the education process of personalized medicine . The test...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2008 12:05 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, Genetics, DNA, Genomics, Prostate Cancer, PSA, DeCode

A Musical Score for Disease – Listening to Cancer Genes?

This is very interesting and thanks to Medgadget for finding this one. Will we someday be listening to cancer genes and perhaps others? If you would like to hear what the genes sound like, here’s the page. I do have to say that this...

Published Mon, Jul 07 2008 1:48 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, DNA, Genomics, Genes, Cancer, Harvard Medical School, Science

Protein Folding – Put your Computer to work for Science during Idle time – Stanford University

Recently I had posted about 2 other programs and here probably the oldest program is in place from Stanford University. Basically, all you need to do is download and install the screensaver and let it go to work when you are not using your...

Published Sun, Jul 07 2008 11:23 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, DNA, Genomics, Stanford, Protein Folding

MediGene AG Puts Clinical Phase I Study with RhuDex(R) on Hold

What can happen with clinical trials, the death of one participant, which has not been fully determined as to whether or not the drug was the cause, puts a halt to the study. Something to keep in mind when considering volunteering for a study, there...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2008 10:47 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, DNA, Sequence, Pharmacogenomics

Opting Out – Mennonites and Amish Face rising hospital bills

Good story from the Wall Street Journal showing how the communities are now welcoming health care assistance, but on the other hand, what is the impact on the community. Community members don’t have a problem paying bills, but they want a fair bill...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2008 12:07 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Hospital, DNA, Genomics, Health IT

How to Use a Gene Gun

Science Roll always has some of the most interesting articles… video at the website. Video is fascinating on how the entire process works. BD If you dream of creating genetically modified plants or animals, watch this short film: It...

Published Fri, Jun 06 2008 3:35 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Technology, Other Items of Interest, DNA, Genomics, Gene Gun

Personalized UV protection arrives in Canada

The product is not available here in the US, yet and there are plans to roll out later this year. The process involves a cheek swab and a sample of nose skin for the evaluation process. Once the lab results are obtained, a personalized skin...

Published Thu, Jun 06 2008 11:28 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, DNA, Dematology, UV Protection, Skin Care

Fold It - A Game with a Serious Impact and We Can all contribute by "Folding Proteins" from our Home Computers...

You set up a profile and play against others on the Internet..." The more we know about how certain proteins fold, the better new proteins we can design to combat the disease-related proteins and cure the diseases.". The project has been given...

Published Sun, May 05 2008 12:50 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Games, personalized medicine, DNA, Genomics, Disease Research, FoldIt, University of Washington, Proteins

Personalized Genetics: Privacy and the Virtual Gene

Science Roll is just doing an outstanding job in keeping us informed on the topic of genomics...if you have not ventured over the the site and have an interest in not only genomics, but some the latest on line resources, take a look... this post also...

Published Wed, May 05 2008 10:28 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, DNA, Genomics, privacy, Science Roll

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