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
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, personalized medicine, Genomics, healthcare, Science, AMA, DNA Testing, Sequencing, Lab Tests, genetic counselors
With the downturn in the economy and recent failures of VC invested money in some biotech areas, this might not be a bad idea. Genomics is here to stay but there doesn’t seem to be enough money yet as it is still basically a science and too soon to get too many real concrete processes yet to work...
10,000 employees, family members or friends of employees of Scripps will be able to participate in the study, Affymetrix to Scan, Navigenics to interpret and offer life style guidance and the Microsoft HealthVault will be the place where participants can enter information and share it as they see fit...
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on 10-09-2008
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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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Two interesting videos about the course of sequencing. Technology is also going into environmental planning and additional medicinal uses. This is somewhat spooky in the fact that they project in 3 years we will have the capability of creating new life forms that have never existed before...
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on 09-27-2008
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The videos are well worth watching as well as fascinating. These are not just "techs" working at the labs, they are physicians, PHDs, etc. that are working on the healthcare items. These are just a few screen shots from the videos. There's all kinds of interesting projects...
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on 08-18-2008
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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
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, personalized medicine, healthcare, Electronic Medical Records, Biotech, cancer research, Research, Gene Sequencing, Disease, DNA Testing, Phamaceuticals, Helios