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• November Man of the Month – Patrick F. Terry

  
  Disruptive Women in Health Care — Authority: 126
  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: 539
  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: 630
  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: 630
  (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 ...
  5 days ago

• Is the practice of medicine impeding medical innovation?

  
  Biotech Blog — Authority: 106
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• 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: 630
  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: 539
  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: 515
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Personalized Medicine Exposes a Gap in Medical Education

  
  ScienceRoll — Authority: 427
  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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• Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Navigenics Partner to Make Personalized Genomics Training Available for Physicians

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 515
  This appears to be a big step in bringing science and the clinical areas together, perhaps something we had thought would have meshed a while back but in essence in the working world has not really happened to a big degree.  Navigenics has been one of the leaders in the genomics side with focusing their education ...
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• Personalized Medicine in the Web 2.0 Era

  
  ScienceRoll — Authority: 427
  A few weeks ago, Daniel Vorhaus from the Genomics Law Report asked me to provide a commentary on what I think about the future of personalized medicine regarding ethical, legal and social aspects. Now my commentary was published and here is an excerpt: Educating medical professionals and preparing the public to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Headline Commentary Oct 12-18

  
  Health Content Advisors — Authority: 112
  »  DocSite Appoints Paul T. Sheils, Top Healthcare Executive, as New CEO | Reuters Paul Sheils, who has led many top quality healthinfo-related companies in the past, named CEO of DocSite. DocSite provides “modular, upgradeable, affordable, Web-based tools tied to evidence-based guidelines”. Interesting. ...
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• Stanford Magnetic Biosensor 1000 times more Sensitive to Cancer Biomarker Proteins

  
  Next Big Future — Authority: 630
  The magnetonanosensor has 64 sensors capable of detecting up to 64 different proteins. In the center of the chip is the well that holds the fluid of interest. The reader that measures the magnetic fields of the sensors is in the background. Thumb and fingers are courtesy of Richard Gaster, M.D./Ph.D. candidate in both ...
  4 weeks ago

• Suppressing PI3K gene in mice prevents heart from aging

  
  Next Big Future — Authority: 630
  Scientists prevented age-related changes in the hearts of mice and preserved heart function by suppressing a form of the PI3K gene, in a study reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. “The study provides evidence that delaying or preventing heart failure in humans may be possible,” ...
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• Stem Cells Get a Big Boost from a Small Molecule

  
  PharmTech Talk — Authority: 120
  The pace of progress in stem-cell research seems to be quickening, and the field’s future looks promising. Last week, a team at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute found what looks like a revolutionary way to create stem cells that could be safe enough to use as treatments in humans. Let’s recap a few major ...
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• Francis Collins, Head of the National Institute of Health Appears on the Colbert Report

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 515
  This is funny, he says he failed being qualified to serve on a “death panel”….Colbert wants stem cells for crab claws…BD   The Colbert Report Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Francis Collins www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full ...
  5 weeks ago

• Collins Reports to Colbert

  
  Science Progress — Authority: 412
  Joking that he is eager to grow a pair of crab claws, Stephen Colbert asked National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins last night what’s taking so long with stem cell research. In response to the Colbert Report host, Collins presented a smart example of how we need to make sure that we get stem cell ...
  5 weeks ago

• Pfizer’s Power on Individualized Medicine

  
  Biotech Blog — Authority: 106
  Copyright © BiotechBlog.com , a product of thinkBiotech.com In these videos Pfizer’s Vice President and Global Head of Molecular Medicine, Aidan Power, talk about a future where everyone’s genome is sequenced and drug prescriptions are based on your genetic makeup, and argues that personalized medicine ...
  8 weeks ago

• Tell Me, How do you feel now? Sherpas RX

  
  Gene Sherpas: Personalized Medicine and You — Authority: 414
  One thing is for sure. In a recent poll of members of the AMA, granted a pretty skewed poll as tons of AMA members cut up their cards this year........random sample of 6000 physicians from the American Medical Association (AMA) Physician Masterfile , which includes current data on all U.S. physicians. Excluded ...
  8 weeks ago

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