This is pretty controversial in essence, if you have ever watched parent already getting pretty steamed up at baseball and soccer games, so next we could easily have some heated discussions on how long each child can play with parents feuding over who’s child has the best gene in the bunch and who would...
They have established a coding vocabulary for genetic test results called CBO, or Clinical Bioinformatics Ontology . Genetic test results are associated with the concepts from the CBO, whereas a traditional observation like a pulse or blood pressure might be associated with a SNOMED (Systematized...
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on 11-15-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, EMR, Genomics, Medical Records, EHR, Cerner, vocabulary, codes
Start up companies and biotech engineering is making a big calling as nobody wants or likes the formulas that crippled Wall Street any longer. There’s a lot of work in R and D though where formulas and scientific study are needed to cure diseases, that is for sure. Hopefully all our well educated...
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on 11-14-2008
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Well it took some spitting and DNA to give us the answers. I missed the articles earlier and always somewhat wondered myself, well the mystery is no longer that. By using the Ancestry Tools at 23AndMe , the word is out, that the 2 are not related, so no complications on being included in...
The tweezers grab a piece of target DNA and release it on-demand using a controlled series of hydrogen bonding and pH changes. The process of getting the tweezers to grasp and release. This is the first one that can grasp and release, as there have been other developments in this area...
10 genetic mutations were found in the patient's tumor and virtually every cell in the tumor sample had nine of the mutations. “What's striking about the new research is that the scientists were able to sift through the 3 billion pairs of chemical bases that make up the human genome to...
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on 10-31-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, Genomics, Cancer, R and D, DNA Testing, Sequencing
Your DNA will be tested for GRK3 and two of its genetic variations and yes you receive a “spit kit” for your deposit. The site also states the test is only available for those individuals showing symptoms, so if you are not in that category, the test is not for you. I would also think that...
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on 10-30-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, Genomics, Depression, DNA Testing, serotonin, bipolar, antidepresants, psychiatry