Personalized medicine

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• Long-Term Physical Activity Has an Anti-Aging Effect at the Cellular Level

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 552
  New research shows that physical exercise by professional athletes leads to activation of the important enzyme telomerase and stabilizes the telomere Intensive exercise prevented shortening of telomeres, a protective effect against aging of the cardiovascular system, according to research reported in Circulation: ...
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• CNN Vital signs - The Clinic with Sanjay Gupta Interviewing Aubrey de Grey and Dan Buettner

  
  Next Big Future — Authority: 616
  Chief Medical Correspondent Dr Sanjay Gupta and world-renowned anti-aging experts discussed practical steps for living longer, and cutting-edge research that could dramatically extend human lives. (for about 30 minutes) Geneticist Aubrey de Grey is the Chief Scientific Officer of SENS Foundation, which researches ...
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• Pathway Genomics: Interview

  
  ScienceRoll — Authority: 470
  Some months ago, I wrote about the importance of customer service in the life of direct-to-consumer genomic companies . After the post, Pathway Genomics contacted me and said they were excited to speak more openly about their service. They also want to educate the community on genetic testing services and what ...
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• A Smarter War on Cancer

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 670
  Biotech , cancer , Drugs Tony Blau wrote: [ Editors Note: this editorial was co-authored by Jay (Marty) Tenebaum of CollabRx and Leroy Hood of the Institute for Systems Biology .] One of society’s great challenges is to advance health care while deflecting its rising cost. Achieving this objective ...
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• SC09 Reflections

  
  Reed's Ruminations: A Blog by Dan Reed — Authority: 105
  SC09 (aka the "Supercomputing Conference") has ended, and my tired feet and aching back are now recovering, albeit slowly. I am confident that tryptophan -induced sleep from massive turkey ingestion, as part of the annual U.S. Thanksgiving ritual, will abet my recovery. But I digress … The SC09 conference set ...
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• Human Genome Project research will allow for ‘personalized medicine’

  
  Daily Titan — Authority: 533
  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 ...
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• Now For Sale at Fire Sale Prices: Thousands of People’s Genomes

  
  80beats — Authority: 626
  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 ...
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• Gene Therapy Can Improve Muscle Mass and Strength in Monkeys, Research Suggests

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 552
  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: 419
  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 ...
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• Gene Therapy Technique Slows Brain Disease ALD Featured In Movie ‘Lorenzo’s Oil’

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 552
  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 ...
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• Modfied HIV Delivered Gene Therapy Could Treat Many Diseases

  
  Next Big Future — Authority: 616
  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 ...
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• Microfluidic Injector of Biomolecules Into Cells Automates and Reduces Cost of A Complex Drug Development Process

  
  Next Big Future — Authority: 616
  (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 ...
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• Is the practice of medicine impeding medical innovation?

  
  Biotech Blog — Authority: 400
  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 ...
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• Comparative Effectiveness Versus Personalized Medicine

  
  PharmTech Talk — Authority: 120
  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 ...
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• Gene Therapy Cures Congenital Blindness and Mole Rat Genetic Immunity to Cancer

  
  Next Big Future — Authority: 616
  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 ...
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• One Shot Of Gene Therapy, And Children With Congenital Blindness Can Now See

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 552
  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 ...
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• AssureRx Test Now Available – Genomic Information For Prescribing Psychiatric Medicine

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 533
  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 ...
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• Personalized Medicine Exposes a Gap in Medical Education

  
  ScienceRoll — Authority: 470
  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 . ...
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