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genetic testing

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Name: genetic testing

First Reported 1 hour ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 1 Documents

So. . .do you need hipster DNA to live here? [bioephemera]

A few thoughts on this ad I spotted last week in Boston: 1. Yes, that appears to be a giant gel electrophoresis. Geez, this town is nerdy. 2. I hope that attractive woman is supposed to be a genetics PhD. Because we're all supermodels. ... [Published 1 hour ago by ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed]

Entities: DNA, genetic testing, National institutes of Health, Genetics, Supermodel

First Reported 1 hour ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 1 Documents

National institutes of Health

NIH Announces a New Genetic Testing Registry [Collective Imagination]

You've no doubt heard that genetic tests are important to screen newborns for serious diseases, to diagnose illnesses, and to customize treatments. While genetic tests aren't a panacea, there's a lot of excitement about their potential, especially as ... [Published 1 hour ago by ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed]

Entities: genetic testing, National institutes of Health, Genome, DNA

First Reported 2 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 1 Documents

Gene Tests Are Not Better Predictors Of Breast Cancer

Researchers reporting Wednesday said, while the study of genes linked to breast cancer could lead to better treatments sometime in the future, they do little to help doctor’s predict who is likely to develop a tumour.Publishing their study in the New ... [Published 2 hours ago by Visit Bulgaria]

Entities: Breast Cancer, BRCA2, Mutation, BRCA1

First Reported 7 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 1 Documents

GenVault Provides GenTegra DNA to Support Cardiovascular Genetic Testing

GenVault Corp announced that Berkeley HeartLab, a subsidiary of Celera Corporation, has adopted GenTegra DNA to preserve and store diagnostic samples for genetic testing related to the management of cardiovascular disease.As new clinically important diagnostic ... [Published 7 hours ago by Clinical Lab Products]

Entities: GenVault Corporation, genetic testing, DNA

First Reported 23 hours ago - Updated 8 hours ago - 2 Documents

Autism Consortium study finds more genetic abnormalities than current tests

The study, a collaboration between the Autism Consortium and Children's Hospital Boston, led by Consortium members Bai-Lin Wu, David Miller, Kira Dies, and Yiping Shen, examined 933 families (children and parents) who received clinical genetic testing ... [Published 8 hours ago by SperoNews]

Entities: Autism, Karyotype, genetic testing, Consortium

First Reported 10 hours ago - Updated 10 hours ago - 1 Documents

Is GWAS the Catalyst for Health Cost Containment?

By Mike Williams BioWorld Perspectives Contributing WriterEditor's note: Mike Williams is an adjunct professor in the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University in Chicago, from where he shares his personal views on today's drug discovery i ... [Published 10 hours ago by BioWorld]

Entities: Genome, Health Care, Genetics

First Reported Mar 18 2010 - Updated Mar 18 2010 - 3 Documents

Food and Drug Administration

NIH's Genetic Testing Registry to Launch in 2011, But Will Dx Firms, Labs Voluntarily Participate?

After much urging from personalized medicine stakeholders for the federal government to create a registry of clinical and analytical specifications for marketed genetic tests, the National Institutes of Health announced this week that it would develop ... [Published Mar 18 2010 by GenomeWeb]

Entities: National institutes of Health, genetic testing, Food and Drug Administration, Database, In Vitro Diagnostics

First Reported Mar 18 2010 - Updated Mar 18 2010 - 2 Documents

Ashkenazi Jews and breast cancer

HAZEL (not her real name), a 58-year-old Ashkenazi Jewish woman, had a routine mammogram at an Invision Sally Jobe center in the Denver area in November, 2009.Prefacing that “it’s a little difficult to recall how everything went,” Hazel wades into a story ... [Published Mar 18 2010 by Intermountain Jewish News]

Entities: Mutation, Breast Cancer, John Lewin

First Reported Mar 18 2010 - Updated Mar 18 2010 - 1 Documents

The Daily Dose – Clinical trials don’t chase rainbows

-- After years of singling out single nucleotide polymorphisms — small variations in DNA — we might not be much closer to singling out those at risk for breast cancer. A new study involving nearly 12,000 women found that testing for SNPs only ... [Published Mar 18 2010 by Spoonful of Medicine - Blog Posts]

Entities: Clinical Trials, Single Nucleotide Polymorphism, Erectile dysfunction, genetic testing

First Reported Mar 18 2010 - Updated Mar 18 2010 - 1 Documents

Prenatal Fetal Genetic Testing to See 'Enormous Expansion' in Coming Years

The Sample A law professor reckons new genetic tests for conditions such as Down syndrome to cystic fibrosis will reverse a trend that has seen the use of genetic tests for these indications ... [Published Mar 18 2010 by The Sample from GenomeWeb Blogs]

Entities: genetic testing, Cystic Fibrosis, Down Syndrome

First Reported Mar 18 2010 - Updated Mar 18 2010 - 1 Documents

Berkeley HeartLab adopts GenTegra DNA to support diagnostic genetic testing for cardiovascular disease

GenVault Corporation today announced that Berkeley HeartLab, a subsidiary of Celera Corporation (Nasdaq: CRA), has adopted GenTegra DNA to preserve and store diagnostic samples for genetic testing related to the management of cardiovascular disease.As ... [Published Mar 18 2010 by News-Medical.Net]

Entities: GenVault Corporation, genetic testing, DNA, Diagnostic

First Reported Mar 18 2010 - Updated Mar 18 2010 - 1 Documents

RainDance Technologies partners with Ambry Genetics to provide sequence enrichment solution for clinical and research studies

Ambry Genetics and RainDance Technologies today jointly announced at the Annual CHI Next Generation Sequencing Conference in San Diego, CA their partnership utilizing the RDT 1000 for sequence enrichment and resequencing validation. A global leader for ... [Published Mar 18 2010 by News-Medical.Net]

Entities: Genetics, Enrichment, genetic testing, Diagnostic

Quotes

...collaboration reports their sequencing and analysis of the Hydra magnipapillata genome, and compare it to the genomes of several other organisms. "The Hydra genome has been shaped by bursts of transposable element expansion, horizontal gene transfer, trans-splicing, and simplification of gene structure and gene content that parallel simplification of the Hydra life cycle" the authors write...

Sequencers and Tanks [GenomeWeb - 4 hours ago]

...…The services cannot be used for health ascertainment or disease purposes.' In a follow-up post, he argues that "this contract is imposed by 23andMe to the public in bad faith because 23andMe actively promotes its users to violate this clause." For example, he says, one user tweeted that he shared his warfarin report with a cardiologist and the company replied to, and retweeted, that message...

Cherry Picking Clauses [GenomeWeb - 4 hours ago]

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Gene Tests Are Not Better Predictors Of Breast ... [Visit Bulgaria - 2 hours ago]
Sequencers and Tanks [GenomeWeb - 4 hours ago]
Cherry Picking Clauses [GenomeWeb - 4 hours ago]
Blog - Common Genetic Variants Have Little Effe... [Technology Review - 7 hours ago]
Ambry Genetics & RainDance Partnership [Drug Discovery World - 7 hours ago]
GenVault Provides GenTegra DNA to Support Cardi... [Clinical Lab Products - 7 hours ago]
Autism Consortium study finds more genetic abno... [SperoNews - 8 hours ago]
Is GWAS the Catalyst for Health Cost Containment? [BioWorld - 10 hours ago]
Cancer Screening in the United States, 2010: A ... [CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians - 20 hours ago]
Chromosomal Microarray More Effective at Detect... [Doctors Guide - 23 hours ago]
Ambry Genetics, RainDance Technologies Partner ... [Clinical Lab Products - Mar 19 2010]
NIH's Genetic Testing Registry to Launch in 201... [GenomeWeb - Mar 18 2010]
Ashkenazi Jews and breast cancer [Intermountain Jewish News - Mar 18 2010]
NIH creates a genetic testing registry [UPI - Mar 18 2010]
HIMSS Video Profile: MERGE Healthcare's Telemed... [Dotmed - Mar 18 2010]
Tests for genes don't predict breast cancer better [Indian Express - Mar 18 2010]
Berkeley HeartLab adopts GenTegra DNA to suppor... [News-Medical.Net - Mar 18 2010]
RainDance Technologies partners with Ambry Gene... [News-Medical.Net - Mar 18 2010]
Genetic Testing for Cancer Risk Not Clinically ... [Science Magazine - Mar 17 2010]
Tests for genes don't predict breast cancer bet... [Yahoo! News - Mar 17 2010]
Playing Pebble Beach: tips from its owner [Fortune - Mar 17 2010]
AMA's Molecular Pathology Workgroup Quietly Wor... [GenomeWeb - Mar 17 2010]
Who Knew Genetic Test Anxiety Is So Prevalent? ... [GenomeWeb - Mar 17 2010]
Right Dose of Heart Drug Pinpointed by Gene Test [MedIndia - Mar 17 2010]
Ambry Genetics and RainDance Technologies Annou... [b3c Newswire - Mar 17 2010]
Ambry Genetics and RainDance Partner for Diagno... [Advance for Administrators of the Laboratory - Mar 17 2010]
Genetic test reduces warfarin-related hospitali... [SmartBrief - Mar 17 2010]
How TOMS Shoes got started [Fortune - Mar 17 2010]
GenVault Provides GenTegra(TM) DNA to Support C... [PR Newswire via MSN Money - Mar 17 2010]
Gene Test Pinpoints Heart Drug Dosage [NewsMax.com - Mar 17 2010]

Blogs

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So. . .do you need hipster DNA to live here? [b... [ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed - 1 hour ago] A few thoughts on this ad I spotted last week in Boston: 1. Yes, that appears to be a giant gel electrophoresis. Geez, this town is nerdy. 2. I hope that ...
NIH Announces a New Genetic Testing Registry [C... [ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed - 1 hour ago] You've no doubt heard that genetic tests are important to screen newborns for serious diseases, to diagnose illnesses, and to customize treatments. While genetic ...
Gleanings - mind & brain, law and war, medi... [ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed - 9 hours ago] Cordyceps in glass, by glass artist Wesley Fleming -- a strange depiction of a rather horrid business. For more, do go to the source, the lovely Myrmecos Blog, ...
Francis Collins announces voluntary genetic tes... [ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed - Mar 18 2010] NIH Director Francis Collins has announced the creation of a voluntary registry for genetic testing services, with the details of each service being made fully available ...
Thank Goodness NIH's Genetic Testing Registry W... [The Sample from GenomeWeb Blogs - Mar 18 2010] The Sample A mandatory database would shoulder the fledgling genetic-testing industry — both its private ...

Audio/Video

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Fewer Babies With Genetic Defects Being Born [Associated Press - YouTube - Feb 17 2010]
Genetic Testing: Early Warning or False Hope? [Mefeedia Video Tag : geneti - Feb 16 2010]
Mayo Clinic Led Study on Long QT Syndrome Sheds... [Mayo Clinic - YouTube - Nov 03 2009]