If you are not aware of how much leading research comes from the facility, check back on a few posts I have done in the past, the HHMI makes a lot of research possible without the red tape and strings that perhaps come along with grants and restrictions from other investors. With the slowing...
Posted to
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on 11-20-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Genomics, healthcare, Harvard Medical School, Budget Cuts, Charity, Research and Development, Medical Research, Fund raising, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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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on 10-19-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, personalized medicine, Genomics, health insurance, Harvard Medical School, DNA Testing, X-prize, Sequencing, Risk Management, George Church, Personal Genomics Project, Polonator
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 is a very interesting concept whereby I wonder if...
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on 07-21-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, DNA, Genomics, Genes, Cancer, Harvard Medical School, Science