POSTS TAGGED AS personalized medicine

Big Leap into the Data Pool

Medical Data Errors
With 100,000 health apps for smartphones and a potential market of close to half trillion dollars driving [MORE]

Complexity of Genomic Aging

SNP
“We observed that certain portions of our genome age 100 times faster than others,” and “Microsatellites, once considered ‘junk DNA,’ [MORE]

Mapping the Metabolome

Metabolomics
Wellcome Trust’s Sanger Institute at Cambridge University, has released an open access map connecting 145 genetic regions (and their variations) [MORE]

Thoughts about Predictive Medicine

In this piece, four distinguished physicians discuss the pros and cons of predictive medicine in the areas of oncology, vascular [MORE]

Geisinger-Regeneron’s Big Data Project

DNA Genomics Research
There’s a gold rush among major healthcare providers to acquire tissue samples for biobanks which in turn support [MORE]

FDA Approves Illumina’s “Next Generation” Sequencer

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Last November, the US Food and Drug Administration gave approval for the first time that high throughput-DNA sequencing can [MORE]

Clinical Genomics Today

For more than 20 years, scientific genomics has promised clinical advantages, and now those promises are proving true with such [MORE]

Predictive Modeling of Drug Response

Pharmacodynamics
Using differential equations for statistical modeling, researchers at Penn State’s College of Medicine believe that careful algorithms can [MORE]

UPMC’s Big Data Mine

Late last year, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center launched its $100m data warehouse project which aims to integrate [MORE]

“CUSTOM” Molecular Profiling for Clinical Cancer Drug Trials

Georgetown University’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center has conducted the first prospective clinical trial which used genetic analysis alone to [MORE]

Hand-Held Device for Extracting DNA

Hand-Held Device for Extracting DNA
Extracting DNA from a cell sample and prepping it for sequencing, by current methods, [MORE]

“Breathprints” in Personalized Medicine

It may come to be called “breathomics”—an individual’s stable and specific breathprint.  Swiss researchers, in mass spectroscopy analyses of [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]