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It has been a big day at Stanford with genomics, not only was the announcement made to better use sequencing to predict own syndrome, but they are also just about ready to receive their new genomic sequencing machine from Helicos. Earlier this year I interviewed Dr. Patrice Milos, Chief Science...
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Genetic markers making their way to electronic medical records with locating potential patients through medical records to perhaps identify candidates that would benefit. Cerner is one of the larger software companies used by many hospitals in the US. A genetic test that would allow identification...
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This lends itself to an area whereby various area of cancer could be targeted, and with few or little side effect as the study states. The term "cellular immortality" is the term that describes cells that keep regenerating endlessly, like cancer cells do. It's a long way to...
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Patrice Milos, Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer, Helicos Biosciences This week I had the opportunity to talk with Patrice Milos from Helicos Biosciences who has a long background in global research and spent a number of years at Pfizer as Executive Director at Pfizer Global Research and Development...
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It should be the discretion of individual physicians, not insurance companies or pharmacies, to substitute a branded biologic for a biosimilar, which goes back to putting the physician in the decision making process, not the non clinical analyzers. While the search for "cheap" continues...
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If you use Outlook and a Tablet PC , this is a must have. I live in "Outlook" and downloaded and installed the software. I like it so much that I even put the software on my desktop IMAC running Vista, as a have a Wacom tablet that I use with my desktop computer. One...
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Filed under: Tablet PCs, Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, Tablet PC, Research, Tablet-PC, Inking, Josh+Einstein, TEO+3.0, Wacom, Wikipedia
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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. I like the idea of the heat map view...
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08-06-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, DNA, Genomics, Research, Pharmacogenomics, MIT, Biomed, Broad Institute, Harvard
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The program uses just plain old Java, but add this technology with sequencing information and with the 4D applications, studies can be virtually conducted to see how a medication would react with selected settings. Its resolution is scaleable to 100,000,000 pixels and more by using more than one...
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Yesterday I posted about Bank of American hiring more research analysts in the area of healthcare investing and and also stated that Blogs are now becoming part of the research process , I have found several who read this blog. This page relates back to a a post about the commitment of the DeCode...
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These are the announcements as relates to healthcare. For the complete listing of others follow the link below. Healthcare is probably one of the toughest markets to analyze today as everything happening is a moving target. Even each area has so many links to other areas, sometimes...
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This is one tough subject by all means. Yes, consumers want early access, but on the other hand if there’s not enough information regarding issues such as side effects, a drug could in fact hasten the process with individuals dying sooner, again studies are what is needed to be safe. ...
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Clinical Trial information is available here as well. The You Tube site is set up to accept contributions, share stories, and more. Using video media is a smart and intelligent way today to reach audiences quickly. By combining efforts with Facebook, there’s even more information available...
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At a time like this, thank goodness there are private foundations such as the Hughes Medical Research Institute, as the funding for universities such as Stanford, University of California, Scripps, etc. appears to be in question and citizens all over the US benefit from the research done here in California...
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A couple months ago I had posted on the this topic with the information needed to apply. Today the winners have been announced from the Microsoft HealthVault Be Well fund, grants for not for profit organizations for continued research. Yesterday it was announced with Kaiser working in connection...
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Watch for the events a local stores. The money raised is donated directly to charities , which provides grants to teaching hospitals and cancer centers doing leading edge research. A related story shows the recipients of this years awards. The affiliated hospitals included Massachusetts...