February 19, 2013 5:46 pm by Rebecca Grant, | 0 Comments
Dr. Narges Bani Asadi says cancer is a genetic disease, and she is using technology to fight it. Asadi is the founder and CEO of Bina, a healthcare startup working ...
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We are at the dawn of a new age of personalized medicine. Just as Moore’s law transformed computing’ and, as a result, all aspects of our professional and personal lives ...
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December 11, 2012 11:34 pm by Sean Ludwig, | 0 Comments
Genetic testing startup 23andMe has raised $50 million in fresh funding with hopes to increase its user base and make greater genetic discoveries, the company announced today. ...
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December 9, 2012 7:05 pm by KELLAND, KATE | 0 Comments
LONDON (Reuters) - Up to 100,000 Britons suffering from cancer and rare diseases are to have their genetic codes fully sequenced and mapped as part of government plans to build ...
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At CloudBeat, the healthcare panel kicked off with a harrowing statistic. The vast majority of breast cancer sufferers will not benefit from chemotherapy. And yet, most patients today receive this ...
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November 26, 2012 5:05 am by Lyn, Tan Ee | 0 Comments
HONG KONG (Reuters) - A gene that keeps embryos alive appears to control the immune system and determine how it fights chronic diseases like hepatitis and HIV, and autoimmune diseases ...
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The possibility of offering pharmaceutical companies a customized path for drug development has landed a North Carolina partnership of academics and entrepreneurs $700,000 in national research funding.Recipients of the National ...
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Today, scientists made a major step in cancer research; they identified the underlying genetic cause behind a rare form of carcinoma cancer, chordoma.This discovery puts the emerging field of genomics ...
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With $10 million in new investments and a $4.5 million grant from National Human Genome Research Institute, a Cambridge DNA sequencing company is preparing to launch its version of a ...
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - As owner of 5 percent of the Los Angeles Lakers, Patrick Soon-Shiong could walk into the locker room of the storied basketball franchise any time for ...
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