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Current economic conditions are taking their toll on the biotech industry. Both companies are involved in research and development for cancer drugs and treatments. BD Exact Sciences Corp ., a Marlborough company trying to use genomics to develop cancer-screening technology, said today...
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They have established a coding vocabulary for genetic test results called CBO, or Clinical Bioinformatics Ontology . Genetic test results are associated with the concepts from the CBO, whereas a traditional observation like a pulse or blood pressure might be associated with a SNOMED (Systematized...
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Well it took some spitting and DNA to give us the answers. I missed the articles earlier and always somewhat wondered myself, well the mystery is no longer that. By using the Ancestry Tools at 23AndMe , the word is out, that the 2 are not related, so no complications on being included in...
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The American Medical Association administration recommends that genetic testing be carried out under the personal supervision of a qualified health care professional, but the lines get a bit gray in between what is actual clinical credible data and what is still science. Education of both the physicians...
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10 genetic mutations were found in the patient's tumor and virtually every cell in the tumor sample had nine of the mutations. “What's striking about the new research is that the scientists were able to sift through the 3 billion pairs of chemical bases that make up the human genome to...
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According to the study, statins are lowering the PSA levels, but the concern is whether or not this could be hiding or clouding the issues and cancer could be potentially missed in the diagnosis as they are not sure if this is lowering the test numbers or if it is in fact helping in the prevention of...
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Not available here in the US yet, but this is a genomic based test that is cancer specific. Nobody likes having a biopsy done by any means and this appears to be working in that direction, in other words more information available to perhaps avoid biopsies that are perhaps not required. BD...
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Yes there is a genomics based test for this now, male and female. Inquiring minds want to know. If the answer comes back yes, then get a hold of some Propecia ©. If you have the gene variant, you have approximately a 70% chance of going bald, and the same in reverse if you do not have...
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The cost sometime next year though may go down with Complete Genomics and their upcoming offer of $5000.00 to sequence a complete individual DNA. There are some that don’t share the same interest in view of privacy issues, but in my small opinion, privacy is pretty much only existing in the shadows...
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Recently announced is the project to begin at Scripps in San Diego as related news, coupled with the announcement of the new sequencing service that will be able to offer a complete sequence at a wholesale price may have held a bit of inspiration here for Navigenics to enter the full sequencing market...
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Somewhat of a landmark study with all contributing to the study and perhaps some answers will arise as for all to continue to exist in the market place this makes sense to search for clinical data that can be used. Perhaps genomics might enter the study here as well with additional information...
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One thing that comes to mind is what a waste of talent here. Series of events lead up to where he is today, but started when he ran out of money for his research related to the GFP gene and cancer. “Researchers worldwide now use GFP to track development of brain cells, the growth of tumors...
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However, their prescription drug unit faced the same problems as the rest of the Pharma industry. A smart investment in consumer products is helping hold things together for J and J. The consumer product division was purchased from Pfizer in 2006, which was the company purchased by Pfizer...
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The group has grown in 7 years from five people focused on healthcare worldwide at Microsoft; now there are more than 700. This group is for responsible primarily for the enterprise space (in biopharma and medical devices), so these are the largest customers in the U.S. I have provided a...
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10-09-2008
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I would say genomics and personalized medicine is a very hot topic and developing fast, based on 4 machines being ordered from Singapore. Just this week Stanford university ordered their single sequencing machines from Helicos. Stay tuned and there’s plenty of sequencing and personalized...