If you are not aware of how much leading research comes from the facility, check back on a few posts I have done in the past, the HHMI makes a lot of research possible without the red tape and strings that perhaps come along with grants and restrictions from other investors. With the slowing...
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on 11-20-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Genomics, healthcare, Harvard Medical School, Budget Cuts, Charity, Research and Development, Medical Research, Fund raising, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
The manufacturers of the machines that run our DNA are still very much in the forefront, gaining investors with DNA sequencing. BD NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Menlo Park, Calif.-based Pacific Biosciences today said that it recently received $20 million in funding from new investor Blackstone Cleantech...
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
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Genomics, healthcare, Biotech, Start Ups, Wall Street, Algorithms, Engineers
New abbreviation here to become acquainted with (PGx) which is pharmacogenics, and one more move in the direction of personalized medicine by big Pharma as the marketing of blockbuster drugs slowly evolves to a new business model with genomic data input becoming a part of the process to bring new drugs...
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on 11-06-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, personalized medicine, Genomics, healthcare, Pharma, Pharmacogenomics, Lilly, Pharmacogenetics
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...
Nice simple explanation from an Oncologist from his view, who is actively involved in treating cancer patients. The article discusses the intertwining of some current treatment plans with up and coming methodologies resulting from the search and study of DNA and genomics, new hope and treatment...
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on 10-18-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Genomics, healthcare, tumors, Breast Cancer, Treatment, markers, personalized medicne, receptors