This story and video if nothing else brings home how important it is to Wash Your Hands. To think that the worm made it all the way to her brain is scary, but the alternative of a tumor is worse by all means as the worm was removed. She was feeling numbness in here arms and the movement of the...
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on 11-22-2008
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The gene is called an enhanced green fluorescence protein that allows scientists to see inside the cat and how thing work. It is completely harmless to the cat. Wild and interesting technology with genomics R and D. BD Named Mr. Green Genes, he look likes a six-month-old cat but...
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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on 10-07-2008
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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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on 08-15-2008
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An update on what is happening with this very unusual case. This is the result of the HPV virus, out of control. Dede Koswara, popularly known across Indonesia as "Tree Man," has been living in a tropical hospital for months, where a team of doctors has been sawing away at...
In the right hand column of this blog, I have included a quick research box for drugs from Epocrates. You can also use the link to the website now to obtain disease diagnosis information as well. The link is right next to the personal health record information. BD Epocrates, best known...