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DNA Sequencing Via Microfluidics

David Weitz and physicist colleagues at Harvard have done preliminary work that shows DNA can be sequenced using a [MORE]

Your Microbiome

A human genome has about 25k genes, but the “acquired human microbiome,” in the trillions of microbial cells that inhabit [MORE]

Microarrays for Asian Populations

All large ethnic groups have unique physiological features and gene expression patterns that reflect those characteristics.  Consequently, Affymetrix has [MORE]

“P4″ with Leroy Hood, Personalized Medicine

Predictive, personalized, preventative and participatory (”P4″) is the future of medicine as genomics pioneer Leroy Hood sees it.  Among other [MORE]

Supercomputing Human Diseases

Medical researchers and physicians at the University of Melbourne (state of Victoria) and IBM’s Research Computational Biology group in [MORE]

MUSING - Genomic Screening of Newborns

Mandatory genetic screening is a hot button issue in healthcare politics.  Possibly, most Americans would oppose widespread genomic [MORE]

BGI Getting Bigger

The Beijing Genomics Institute’s recent order of 126 DNA sequencers from Illumina, not only makes BGI the world’s largest [MORE]

Business in Companion Diagnostics

As an indication of things to come, Qiagen (Venlo, The Netherlands) signed an exclusive agreement with Johns Hopkins [MORE]

The Mexican Genome

Like the “Human Genome,” the “Mexican Genome” is an intellectual artifact, reflecting the broad strokes of mixing European, Native [MORE]

“Gene Chip” for Dosing Analysis

Recently, The Pharmacogenomics Journal published a study that John Deeken, at Georgetown University’s Lombardi Cancer Center, carried out [MORE]

MUSING - The Transcendental Mrs. Lacks

Personalized medicine evokes “big science”- large research grants, geonomic and proteomic instruments, bioinformatics data mining, individually “tailored” therapeutics, a slew [MORE]

Services for Next Generation DNA Sequencing

Besides figuring out new ways to run sequencers (e.g. IBM’s new nanopore approach, in the Nov. 3 Tagline), faster sample [MORE]

Kaiser Permanente to Create 100,000 Genome Data Bank in CA

What do you suppose would be the reaction to a news headline that an insurance company is undertaking the largest [MORE]

Personal Genomics

As genome sequencing technology becomes faster and cheaper, researchers such as Elaine Mardis, at Washington University School of Medicine (St. [MORE]

Computer Modeling of Cancer Pathways

Relying on genomic profiling data, researchers at the Translational Genomics Research Institute in Phoenix, and nearby Scottsdale Health, have discovered [MORE]

Acoustic Cell Sorting

Labcyte, Inc (Sunnyvale, CA)—a company that pioneered acoustic methods for transferring liquids from pico to nanoliter containers—has  now developed an [MORE]

Beckman Coulter Creates Genomics Services Company

Beckman Coulter (Fullerton, CA) recently announced that it has combined Agencourt Biosciences and Cogenics to form Beckman Coulter Genomics—a business [MORE]

Rosetta @ Home

Many will remember, even if they aren’t still subscribers, SETI@home–a project that launched a decade ago to link up millions [MORE]

Personal Genome Services Offered Through Major Healthcare Provider

23andMe, (Mountain View and San Diego, CA) recently announced it has partnered with Palomar Pomerado Health in San Diego to [MORE]