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
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, personalized medicine, Genomics, healthcare, Electronic Medical Records, Biotech, cancer research, Research, Gene Sequencing, Disease, Stanford University, DNA Testing, Phamaceuticals, Helicos, Donation
Genetic markers making their way to electronic medical records with locating potential patients through medical records to perhaps identify candidates that would benefit. Cerner is one of the larger software companies used by many hospitals in the US. A genetic test that would allow identification...
This lends itself to an area whereby various area of cancer could be targeted, and with few or little side effect as the study states. The term "cellular immortality" is the term that describes cells that keep regenerating endlessly, like cancer cells do. It's a long way to...
It should be the discretion of individual physicians, not insurance companies or pharmacies, to substitute a branded biologic for a biosimilar, which goes back to putting the physician in the decision making process, not the non clinical analyzers. While the search for "cheap" continues...
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on 08-14-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, DNA, Genomics, Biotech, Research, Congress, Pharmaceuticals, Biosimilars
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
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, DNA, Genomics, Research, Pharmacogenomics, MIT, Biomed, Broad Institute, Harvard
The program uses just plain old Java, but add this technology with sequencing information and with the 4D applications, studies can be virtually conducted to see how a medication would react with selected settings. Its resolution is scaleable to 100,000,000 pixels and more by using more than one...
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on 08-05-2008
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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...