Current economic conditions are taking their toll on the biotech industry. Both companies are involved in research and development for cancer drugs and treatments. BD Exact Sciences Corp ., a Marlborough company trying to use genomics to develop cancer-screening technology, said today...
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
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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 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
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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
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According to the study, statins are lowering the PSA levels, but the concern is whether or not this could be hiding or clouding the issues and cancer could be potentially missed in the diagnosis as they are not sure if this is lowering the test numbers or if it is in fact helping in the prevention of...
Not available here in the US yet, but this is a genomic based test that is cancer specific. Nobody likes having a biopsy done by any means and this appears to be working in that direction, in other words more information available to perhaps avoid biopsies that are perhaps not required. BD...