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This may be a little heavy for most to comprehend but this is more of a technical report on how synthetic life and cell control was created. This is about a 25 minute video. Pay particular attention here to his comments talking about “debugging” as we have this too with software for healthcare...
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The J. Craig Venter Institute reported in May of 2010 that it had created the world's first synthetic genome and inserted it into a microbe that then booted up and replicated. This is very interesting and 60 Minutes does a good job on showing how Craig Venter started and how the business of...
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Last year I was luck enough to spend a bit time talking with Dr. Patrice Milos, Chief Science Officer for Helicos who explained the entire process to me, an interesting read and in layman’s terms pretty much. One thing that the doctor and I both whole heartedly agreed on is that “it is all about...
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What is interesting here is that the service will be using Amazon Web Services along with the software from Geospiza, a Seattle-based maker of software to support biological research. With the large amounts of data to analyze and research with genomic research, this makes sense to embrace perhaps...
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Fri, May 8 2009
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This shows a clear new effort to help educate patients on what their genetic background could hold in store, and is one more step with bringing personalized medicine knowledge to the public. This is not a complete sequence, but rather an informative DNA study that can stand to offer information...
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This looks like a new and different way to raise money for the X Prize Foundation. The medical side of the foundation has recently been in the news but the genomics side of the business has been established for quite a while. The related reading below gives some of the history. A few...
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Fri, Apr 24 2009
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Sergey Brin found out that he had inherited from his mother a mutation of a gene called LRRK2. This presence gives him a larger chance of developing Parkinson’s Disease. Google has also invested in 23andme , which by now everyone might be aware of since it was Sergey’s wife who started the...
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The enrollment is to end in around a week or so, perhaps it can be extended, but still even at 4000 participants, that appears to be a large enough number to create the study. For a little background on the project, I have a prior post here from October of last year. Affymetrix will scan...
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This is perhaps one of the most awaited announcements with Complete Genomics, who is basically slated to use their technology to “wholesale” sequencing, in other words, they will run the DNA but will not provide the analysis and is said to have a pretty big impact on what the cost of sequencing is going...
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Sat, Jan 31 2009
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First of all if you are not familiar with what this is all about, use the link below to watch a video that will help you comprehend what is going on with the Human Genome Project and the Personal Genome Project. An Introduction to Genomics – Humans have Bugs just like Windows does and It’s all...
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Fri, Jan 30 2009
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This author found out she had the BRCA1 mutation from an early study where she had participated and was counseled on what she might look in to for her future lifestyle and options for early testing, i.e. mammograms at at 30, etc. She dropped out of the study and years later is diagnosed with breast...
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Thu, Jan 22 2009
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“Steven Pinker is Harvard College professor of psychology at Harvard University and the author of “The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window Into Human Nature.” Steven Pinker was one of the first 10 volunteers to have his genome sequenced. This is a rather lengthy, but well worth reading article...
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Sat, Jan 10 2009
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We have not heard much of this in the news of late, and with recent milestones in the progress it could be an entirely different ball game too by the time it is decided. Complete Genomics, who I am not even sure is a contender here has changed the picture quite a bit with their offering of 5k sometime...
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FinchLab is the name of the software product to be used. We are all overwhelmed with data and sequencing is a huge amount of data to be interpreted, so the combination of the software along with the genetic machine produced by Illumina stand to make a good combination for not only speed, but also...
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There are big companies investing in genomics as well, but as time progresses we could see a combination of efforts and some melt downs occur. Cerner healthcare just recently made the news by adding genomics capabilities to their lab software. Complete Genomics has a little different...
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Tue, Nov 18 2008
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