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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You can set up a log in and donate today. Click here for details. As I had posted in a story a couple days ago, the bar has risen for venture capitalist investments, it is still there, but perhaps a little tougher to get, and with government cuts on grants and availability for research,...
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on 08-30-2008
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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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Tumor Cell Profiling... the tests show if your cancer cells were killed by exposure to one or more of the 20 or so different anti-cancer drugs that might otherwise have been considered as possible treatments for your type of cancer. A test that can help determine which cancer drugs would appear...
The software offers both detailed, localized views of genomic data, and a whole genome view, in a format somewhat similar to the way Google presents items on the web. It is free to download and use. There are also some sample data files available. I like the idea of the heat map view...
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on 08-06-2008
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Social networks have come to the biometric business. The interface combines both social aspects as well as the research end of things. This makes it easy to find projects, affiliations, and to see how else has publications through the " fight" screen . You can also add the...
Intellectual Property on the auction block, patents with FDA approval. This is the first time I have noticed technology with health care just up on the open auction block, especially as it relates to cancer research. With the acquisition, it must not fit into the same business model...