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Researchers from the Genetics and Public Policy Center at Johns Hopkins University are suggesting some companies are using misleading claims to push tests that have limited clinical validation — something they say may ultimately hurt the pharmacogenetics field. They recommend that this type of testing needs more oversight and are calling […]
I’ve known UK diagnostics company Lab-21 for some years now. My previous company Opaldia and Lab-21 effectively ‘grew up’ together.
Amgen Limited UK and Lab21 have announced their partnership to introduce a new genetic therapy test for advanced bowel cancer treatment. Under the terms of the agreement, Lab21 will provide a screening test to indicate which patients are likely […]
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US scientists have discovered a possible reason why the flu virus is seasonal and tends to infect people mostly in the winter. It has a jacket that melts in the summer causing the virus to die off, and stays hard in the winter, until it […]
Further to my various articles on our ancestry, differences in gene expression levels between people of European versus African ancestry appear to affect how each group responds to certain drugs or fights off specific infections, report researchers from the University of Chicago Medical Center and the Expression Research Laboratory at Affymetrix Inc. of Santa Clara, CA.
The researchers […]
Scientists from Newcastle University, UK led by Professor Patrick Chinnery, have created an embryo with three separate parents. The team believe the technique could help to eradicate a whole class of hereditary diseases, including some forms of epilepsy and ensure women with genetic defects do not pass the diseases on to their children.
Ten severely deformed embryos, left […]
The EU funded GEN2PHEN project plans to internationally orchestrate the electronic gathering and use of data that show how gene sequences (’genotypes’) contribute to individual differences in disease, drug response, and other characteristics (’phenotypes’). These relationships (usually in the form of “genotype-phenotype” information stored in scattered databases) are deemed to become essential for future prognosis, […]
Yay! At last common sense prevails!
The UK’s Human Genetics Commission (HGC) has just issued an enormous tome on the subject of genetic testing called ‘More Genes Direct’ (recommended weekend read!)
The report discusses the imminent explosion of genetic testing and the fact there is very little regulation or independent validation about test claims. The HGC is concerned that […]
Further to my articles on hospital MRSA ..
A new strain of MRSA called Community Associated MRSA (CA-MRSA) that infects people in the community as opposed to vulnerable and sick people in hospitals, appears to be gaining a foothold because of certain clever tricks the bacteria has learned about the human immune system that it uses to […]
Cardiff University, Wales and Wellcome Trust, the UK’s largest medical research charity have embarked on a project to scan the entire human genome in search of genes that pre-dispose people to, or protect them from developing late-onset Alzheimer’s disease.
The team led by Professor Julie Williams will use a technique known as ‘genome-wide association scanning’ to […]
Some patients, particularly young children, may be born with a genetic mutation which means they are at risk of hearing loss after taken antibiotics called aminoglycosides. There is now a drive to consider screening patients for the genetic mutation known as m.1555A-G which is held in around 1 in 1,611 newborns in the USA, 1 in […]
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