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Jim Slade
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What happens when you put 500,000 people's DNA online?
Huge genetic databases are changing how scientists study disease. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2...e/543747?utm_source=atltw  |
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Jim Slade
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Statement from FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D. on implementation of agency's streamlined development and review pathway for consumer tests that evaluate genetic health risks
https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm583885.htm |
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Over a 40-year career, this 'stubborn scientist'helped change the way we think about cancer and genetics
Mary-Claire King, a geneticist, and professor at the University of Washington was instrumental in the discovery of that changed the way we think about cancer http://www.businessinsider.com/mary-claire-ki...n-cancer-genetics-2017-11 |
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I find they both work, Saphir12
 Don't you think it's pictures the size of the real 'Guernica' that makes the page very slow loading? In my end it takes forever less one minute. |
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Jim Slade
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What You Need to Know About FDA Oversight of Genomics Research
This is a panel discussion with presentation video and slides with: Kate Donigan, Ph.D., FDA Jonathan Berg, MD, PhD., UNC Christina Kapustiji, MS, NHGRI Derick Sholes, PhD., ASHG Director of Science Policy https://blog.ashg.org/2017/11/17/fda-oversight-genomics-research/ |
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Jim Slade
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LinkedOmics: analyzing multi-omics data within and across 32 cancer types
The LinkedOmics database contains multi-omics data and clinical data for 32 cancer types and a total of 11,158 patients from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) project. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkx1090 |
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l_mckeon
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Blood-vessel boosting cancer treatment.
----------------------------------------Changes the blood vessel types in solid tumors such as pancreatic cancers and brain tumors, which then allows a drug boosted follow-up with the body's own T cells and immune system. Animal trials only so far, trying to get money for human trials and development. http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/...-cancer-treatment/9143788 (note transcript) Also New cancer treatment targeting immune-system-resistant tumours 'promising' By Nicolas Perpitch http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-28/new-cancer-drugs-showing-promise/8994484 [Edit 1 times, last edit by l_mckeon at Nov 26, 2017 11:50:35 PM] |
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Gene Therapy Hits a Peculiar Roadblock: A Virus Shortage
Revolutionary new treatments depend on tailor-made viruses, but laboratories cannot make them fast enough. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/27/health/gene-therapy-virus-shortage.html |
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Jim Slade
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After on Podcast: Robert Green | The Promise & Peril in YOUR Genes
Robert Green, MD, MPH, directs the Genomes2People research program, is a medical geneticist at Brigham & Women's Hospital, is a Professor at Harvard Medical School and an associate at the Broad Institute. He investigates the consequences of accessing personal genetic knowledge. https://after-on.com/episodes/016 |
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