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Genetics in Medicine's October 2013 issue details solutions for integrating genomic data into EHR

Genetic tests can now tell us whether we are at increased risk of various cancers, heart or kidney disease, asthma and a number of other conditions.

20 Sep 2013

Scientists aim at protecting adults from virulent strain of avian influenza virus

Scientists at the University of Maryland School of Medicine's Center for Vaccine Development are part of nationwide vaccine research aimed at protecting adults from a new and virulent strain of avian (bird) influenza (flu) virus.

20 Sep 2013

Human breast tumors transplant could be valuable tools in search for better treatments

Breast cancer that spreads to other organs is extremely difficult to treat. Doctors can buy patients time, but a cure remains elusive. Now, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have shown that human breast tumors transplanted into mice are excellent models of metastatic cancer and could be valuable tools in the search for better treatments.

20 Sep 2013

Drexel University researchers create molecule that can cause AIDS virus to destroy itself

Pinning down an effective way to combat the spread of the human immunodeficiency virus, the viral precursor to AIDS, has long been challenge task for scientists and physicians, because the virus is an elusive one that mutates frequently and, as a result, quickly becomes immune to medication.

20 Sep 2013

Google Eyes Wider Healthcare Footprint With Tech-Focused Calico

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19 Sep 2013

Agilent Marries Life-Sci And Diagnostics, On Eve Of Measurement Spinout

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19 Sep 2013

Orbeshield Earns Soligenix Up To $26.3M From BARDA

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19 Sep 2013

Florida Hospital To Evaluate VTT’S Alzheimer’S Biomarker Assay

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is taking an important step toward advancing its Alzheimer's disease biomarker by collaborating with the Florida Hospital Neuroscience Institute to evaluate screening, diagnostic, and prognostic potential of the biomarker assay and utilize it to specifically target which types of precautions to take when approaching early stages of the disease.

19 Sep 2013

BARDA Exercises $6M Option For Aeolus' Acute Radiation Syndrome Drug

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19 Sep 2013

GSK Returns Vercirnon Rights To Chemocentryx After Phase III Flop

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19 Sep 2013

arGEN-X and Shire achieve milestone in SIMPLE Antibody R&D collaboration

arGEN-X, a clinical stage human monoclonal antibody therapeutics company, announces it has attained a key success milestone in its SIMPLE Antibody research and product development collaboration with the Human Genetic Therapies division of Shire Pharmaceuticals. The milestone, which triggered an undisclosed payment from Shire, was the first demonstration of in vivo proof of concept for one of the antibody discovery programs undertaken in the collaboration.

19 Sep 2013

Blood lipid marker may help predict risk for Parkinson's disease

A genetic mutation, known as GBA, that leads to early onset of Parkinson's disease and severe cognitive impairment (in about 4 to 7 percent of all patients with the disease) also alters how specific lipids, ceramides and glucosylceramides are metabolized. Mayo Clinic researchers have found that Parkinson's patients who do not carry the genetic mutation also have higher levels of these lipids in the blood. Further, those who had Parkinson's and high blood levels were also more likely to have cognitive impairment and dementia.

19 Sep 2013

Isis Pharmaceuticals announces preliminary data from ISIS-SMNRx Phase 1 study in infants with SMA

Isis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today that follow-up preliminary data from a single dose, open-label Phase 1 study of ISIS-SMNRx in children with spinal muscular atrophy, show that most SMA children receiving the two highest doses of the drug (6 mg and 9 mg) continued to show improvements in muscle function tests up to 14 months after a single injection of the drug.

19 Sep 2013

Cancer Council Queensland to host free webinar for women diagnosed with breast cancer genes

Cancer Council will next week host a free national webinar for women who carry BRCA 1 or BRCA 2 genes for breast cancer.

19 Sep 2013

Domino transplant saves patient suffering from liver cancer

Tiffany Schwantes was going to die without a new liver. The 31-year old mother of two suffered from an aggressive form of liver cancer and, because of organ allocation rules, she could not be placed high enough on the liver transplant list to receive a new liver in a timely manner.

19 Sep 2013

Researchers examine evolutionary selective pressure for MC1R gene among Spaniard and European populations

The proclivity of Spaniards to bask in regions like the Costa del Sol while their northern European counterparts must stay under cover to protect their paler skin or risk skin cancer is due in large part to the pigment producing qualities of the MC1R gene locus.

19 Sep 2013

Genetic News and Research

Genetics in Medicine's October 2013 issue details solutions for integrating genomic data into EHR

Scientists aim at protecting adults from virulent strain of avian influenza virus

Human breast tumors transplant could be valuable tools in search for better treatments

Drexel University researchers create molecule that can cause AIDS virus to destroy itself

Google Eyes Wider Healthcare Footprint With Tech-Focused Calico

Agilent Marries Life-Sci And Diagnostics, On Eve Of Measurement Spinout

Orbeshield Earns Soligenix Up To $26.3M From BARDA

Florida Hospital To Evaluate VTT’S Alzheimer’S Biomarker Assay

BARDA Exercises $6M Option For Aeolus' Acute Radiation Syndrome Drug

GSK Returns Vercirnon Rights To Chemocentryx After Phase III Flop

arGEN-X and Shire achieve milestone in SIMPLE Antibody R&D collaboration

Blood lipid marker may help predict risk for Parkinson's disease

Isis Pharmaceuticals announces preliminary data from ISIS-SMNRx Phase 1 study in infants with SMA

Cancer Council Queensland to host free webinar for women diagnosed with breast cancer genes

Domino transplant saves patient suffering from liver cancer

Researchers examine evolutionary selective pressure for MC1R gene among Spaniard and European populations

New blood test accurately differentiates viral and bacterial infections

Researchers identify likely molecular pathway that causes untreatable neurodegenerative diseases

SHBG protein indicates risk of type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome years in advance

Researchers discover new way to combat HIV-1 infection

eBook: Using iPSCs models for human disease research and drug discovery eBook

Bringing real-time analytics to downstream bioprocess monitoring

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

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