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The Last Decade’s Ten Most Important Technological Advances

Solohealth Station
You may not agree with Becker’s list of the ten biggest technological advances for healthcare in the last decade, [MORE]

Topol on the Cancer Clinic of the Future

Eric Topol, M.D.
Eric Topol, M.D. is the editor of Medscape News and author of “The Creative Destruction of [MORE]

Sequencing Autoimmune Diseases

Using high throughput sequencing, scientists at Queen Mary University in London have carried out the largest sequencing study of [MORE]

Prenatal Genomics

There’s a strong chance that sometime this year a person’s complete genome will be sequenced before birth.  For some [MORE]

Perspective on Big Data Genomics

Tech Data
With improvements in DNA sequencing technology—making that task cheaper and faster—the next obstacle to overcome in [MORE]

Genetic Tests and the Patient’s Right to Know

A policy group of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics recently recommended guidelines for informing patients about [MORE]

Genetic Tests and the Patient’s Right to Know

A policy group of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics recently recommended guidelines for informing patients about [MORE]

The Human Gene Connectome

TLR3 Connectome
Why do no two people ever have exactly the same disease?  The answer is in their unique genomes and [MORE]

Coriell’s “Gene Vault”

The renowned Coriell Institute for Medical Research (opened in 1956; Camden, NJ) has partnered with IBM to create Coriell [MORE]

Weill-Cornell’s “Institute for Precision Medicine”

“Personalized medicine,” or as Weill-Cornell calls it “precision medicine,” is gaining traction from relatively inexpensive gene sequencers and effective [MORE]

Interpreting Genomic Sequences

With the latest generation of DNA sequencers, the so-called “$1,000 genome” is a reality, and the breadbox-sized machine that [MORE]

Hand-Held Blood Analyzer for Malaria

NanoMal Blood Analysis Unit for Malaria
Foreseen almost as a micro pathology lab in the space of an over-the-counter [MORE]

DNA Screening for Drug Resistant TB Pathogen in Prison Populations

Prisons around the world are reservoirs that generate drug resistant tuberculosis, and when infected prisoners are released the disease [MORE]

UK Funds Massive Whole Genome Sequencing Project

Over the next three to five years, the UK Genome Plan ($160m in government funding) will carry out whole-genome [MORE]