New technology in development, a card that you would swipe just as is done with credit cards. As listed below the card could give instant information relative to PSA testing, Herpes, and markers with personalized medicine. The results would be within a few minutes instead of days or even...
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on 10-30-2008
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Last month several Genomics companies received warning letters from the State of California and were told they needed to be licensed. 23andMe, which is an offshoot of Google may have a potential solution on the dilemma of the licensing issue with working with LabCorp, one of the largest labs...
If you have not read up yet on personalized medicine this is a great article that will go through the basics in layman's terms...there are 4 links below to each section...and the last area is the toughest...the challenges as it will all be work in progress for quite a while to come...so somebody...
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on 05-24-2008
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Genomic Labs are on the way....BD After four years of litigation and detailed planning, the first $271 million in facilities grants is just about ready to be doled out by the California stem cell institute . And that in turn will trigger more than three-quarters of a billion dollars worth of new construction...
Also, recent announcements include a letter of intent to work with deCODE, a biopharmaceutical company applying its discoveries in human genetics to the development of drugs and diagnostics for common diseases...BD DALLAS and NEW YORK, May 6 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. Preventive Medicine(R), ( http://www.uspreventivemedicine...
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on 05-06-2008
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