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
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 an article written by Misha Angrist is an assistant professor at the Duke University Institute for Genome Sciences and discusses what do we do with our genome once we get it? Actually the article talks about where we are today with the technology. The only thing I think that we all...