The manufacturers of the machines that run our DNA are still very much in the forefront, gaining investors with DNA sequencing. BD NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Menlo Park, Calif.-based Pacific Biosciences today said that it recently received $20 million in funding from new investor Blackstone Cleantech...
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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on 11-19-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, personalized medicine, Genomics, Science, software, DNA Testing, Sequencing, Geopiza, Illumina, FinchLab
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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on 11-18-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, personalized medicine, Genomics, health insurance, DNA Testing, X-prize, Sequencing, George Church, Complete Genomics, Personal Genomics Project, Polonator
Personalized Medicine will create many answers and solutions in healthcare, but will we have the money to afford it? I post quite a bit about genomics and personalized medicine on the blog here and the one thing it has in common with the rest of healthcare is cost. The success of personalized...
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on 11-14-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, personalized medicine, healthcare, Medical Records, FDA, integration, CMS, Leavitt
New abbreviation here to become acquainted with (PGx) which is pharmacogenics, and one more move in the direction of personalized medicine by big Pharma as the marketing of blockbuster drugs slowly evolves to a new business model with genomic data input becoming a part of the process to bring new drugs...
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on 11-06-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, personalized medicine, Genomics, healthcare, Pharma, Pharmacogenomics, Lilly, Pharmacogenetics
I have posted a couple resources here too from past articles, Navigenics has from the beginning focused their DNA and genomic sequencing in the area of physicians versus consumer retail selling methods. This is an important area as some knowledge is certainly better than none and integrating the...
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on 11-05-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, personalized medicine, Genomics, Biotech, CME, DNA Testing, Navigenics, Sequencing, medical education
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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on 11-04-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, personalized medicine, Genomics, healthcare, Science, AMA, DNA Testing, Sequencing, Lab Tests, genetic counselors