Personalized Medicine

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• Human Genome Project research will allow for ‘personalized medicine’

  
  Daily Titan — Authority: 589
  WASHINGTON (MCT) – A whirlwind of activity is under way to apply the findings of the $3 billion Human Genome Project to improve health care in the United States and around the world. Six years after scientists finished decoding the human genome – the genetic instruction book for life – they’re starting to ...
  6 days ago

• Now For Sale at Fire Sale Prices: Thousands of People’s Genomes

  
  80beats — Authority: 645
  DeCode Genetics , a genome sequencing and drug development company, found out the hard way that predicting disease risk simply by reading someone’s genes isn’t so straightforward. On Tuesday, deCode filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Delaware. The company’s financial problems have also raised ...
  6 days ago

• Gene Therapy Can Improve Muscle Mass and Strength in Monkeys, Research Suggests

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 540
  Cynomolgus macaque. New research in these primates suggests that a gene delivery strategy that produces follistatin can improve muscle mass and function.A study appearing in Science Translational Medicine puts scientists one step closer to clinical trials to test a gene delivery strategy to improve muscle mass and ...
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• November Man of the Month – Patrick F. Terry

  
  Disruptive Women in Health Care — Authority: 127
  This month, Disruptive Women welcomes Patrick F. Terry, a self-proclaimed “JAD” (Just A Dad), as our Man of the Month. Q: So, where should we start? You have been involved with founding a number of ground breaking biotechnology companies, life science research foundations, trade associations, philanthropic ...
  2 weeks ago

• Gene Therapy Technique Slows Brain Disease ALD Featured In Movie ‘Lorenzo’s Oil’

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 540
  This figure represents four cells, four purified CD34+ (the CD34+ cell population comprises true hematopoetic stem cell) from patient P1.A strategy that combines gene therapy with blood stem cell therapy may be a useful tool for treating a fatal brain disease, French researchers have found.These findings appear in the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Modfied HIV Delivered Gene Therapy Could Treat Many Diseases

  
  Next Big Future — Authority: 625
  In a pilot study of two patients monitored for two years, an international team of researchers slowed the onset of the debilitating brain disease X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) using a lentiviral vector to introduce a therapeutic gene into patients blood cells. Although studies with larger cohorts of patients ...
  2 weeks ago

• Microfluidic Injector of Biomolecules Into Cells Automates and Reduces Cost of A Complex Drug Development Process

  
  Next Big Future — Authority: 625
  (a) Zebrafish embryo immobilized by suction capillary. (b) Needle inserted into yolk sack. (c) Electroosmotic pumping of methylene blue solution into the embryo by the application of 25 V for 10 s. (d) Needle retracted from the embryo. Credit: McMaster Engineering Physorg reports the construction and operation of a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Is the practice of medicine impeding medical innovation?

  
  Biotech Blog — Authority: 403
  Copyright © BiotechBlog.com , a product of thinkBiotech.com At a recent event on the comparative advantages of small molecule vs. biologic drugs, several themes emerged which led me to re-examine the question of whether the practice of medicine is capable of keeping pace with medical innovation. As ...
  2 weeks ago

• Comparative Effectiveness Versus Personalized Medicine

  
  PharmTech Talk — Authority: 121
  Is comparative effectiveness antithetical to personalized medicine? A report posted on Reuters  suggests that Francis Collins, the new head of the National Institutes of Health and champion of the Human Genome Project, thinks so. Reuters quoted Collins predicting “a potential collision [between personalized ...
  3 weeks ago

• Gene Therapy Cures Congenital Blindness and Mole Rat Genetic Immunity to Cancer

  
  Next Big Future — Authority: 625
  1. One shot of gene therapy and children with congenital blindness can now see Starting with gene therapy treatment research on the eyes keeps the gene therapy localized so that researchers can learn to make effective treatment where this is low risk of complications and side effects. After a single injection of ...
  4 weeks ago

• One Shot Of Gene Therapy, And Children With Congenital Blindness Can Now See

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 540
  Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the Center for Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia have used gene therapy to safely improve vision in five children and seven adults with a rare form of congenital blindnessBorn with a retinal disease ...
  4 weeks ago

• AssureRx Test Now Available – Genomic Information For Prescribing Psychiatric Medicine

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 514
  The results are completely private and use a web-based program to locate.  This somewhat a first move of it’s type to be able to get a psychiatric genetic footprint before prescribing medications to treat various mental diseases/conditions to include medications for anti-depression.  Anti- depression drugs have ...
  4 weeks ago

• Personalized Medicine Exposes a Gap in Medical Education

  
  ScienceRoll — Authority: 425
  Do you remember the report focusing on how young physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center test their own DNA in search of genes linked to various illnesses? I’ve now just come across a great article in PLoS Medicine about how the dawning era of personalized medicine exposes a gap in medical education . ...
  4 weeks ago

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