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Some Issues with “Personalized Medicine”

January 30, 2024 | | Posted in Newsletter

Personalized medicine – the pros, cons and concerns
“Legally, a physician is negligent when they fail to follow generally accepted practice. [MORE]

“All of Us” Program Releases 250k Genomes

July 25, 2023 | | Posted in Newsletter

“All of Us” Research Program
“The National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) All of Us Research Program announced that 250,000 whole genome [MORE]

A Urine Test for Precision Asthma Diagnosis

September 28, 2021 | | Posted in Newsletter

Urine test for asthma
“Researchers at the Karolinska Institute (KI) in Sweden have developed a non-invasive urine-based test that can identify [MORE]

A More Precise CRISPR

September 1, 2020 | | Posted in Newsletter

Improved CRISPR Cas9
Off targeting has always been a problem for the otherwise remarkable CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology.  To improve the [MORE]

Perspective on Wearables

November 5, 2019 | | Posted in Newsletter

Verily watch
“From the patient’s perspective, wearables already give their users a sense of data ownership, even at the basic level [MORE]

Geisinger on Routine Sequencing

July 17, 2018 | | Posted in Newsletter

Geisinger Health
“Precision medicine” based on DNA sequencing is all the buzz in healthcare except among payers who deem molecular profiling [MORE]

Brain Delivery of Drugs with Ultrathin Needle

March 27, 2018 | | Posted in Newsletter

Ultrathin Needle Delivers Medication to Brain
Quoting directly: “Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have devised a miniaturized system that can deliver [MORE]

Kaiser Permanente’s Research Biobank Is Currently Largest (Non-Governmental) in the US

December 19, 2017 | | Posted in Newsletter

Research Biorepository Kaiser Permanente
This piece should be read with an eye to the previous story about hacking DNA sequencers. The [MORE]

Building Better Lab Rats

March 28, 2017 | | Posted in Newsletter

Wistar Rat
Rats do more work in medical research than mice, but mice get all the glamour. (50% more scientific publications [MORE]

Targeting Disease-Causing RNAs in Precision Medicine

February 14, 2017 | | Posted in Newsletter

L-RNA3D
“With the precision of a surgeon’s scalpel, we have shown that small molecules can be designed to seek out and [MORE]

A Path to Precision Cardiac Medicine

October 25, 2016 | | Posted in Newsletter

CRISPR-Cas9 Mode of Action
About 30% of drugs in clinical trials are withdrawn because of safety issues, several of which present [MORE]

Fluid Dispensing Robot

May 5, 2015 | | Posted in Newsletter

Nordson EFD E3 Robot
Precision medicine requires a supply chain of precision components—one of which is precision dispensing robots. This piece [MORE]

A Lesson about Personalized Drug Dosing

March 31, 2015 | | Posted in Newsletter

3D Integrated Pharmaceuticals
This piece describes a process called “3-D integrated pharmaceuticals” which relies on prefabricated components that can be assembled, [MORE]

Venter’s Human Longevity, Inc.

March 24, 2015 | | Posted in Newsletter

J. Craig Venter
Its banner reads: “Aging is the single biggest risk factor for virtually every significant human disease. . .” [MORE]