New app will let doctors review patients’ genome for cancer treatment

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Patrick Soon-Shiong, the richest doctor in the world, and Blackberry Chief Executive John Chen made some news at Thursday’s Forbes ...
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‘Miracle’ drug grows young girls limbs, costs of rare disease treatments pose challenges

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Evie Elsaesser is 5 years old and she loves to run. And that is a medical miracle. When Evie was born, ...
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FDA to regulate genetic diagnostic tests, will affect cancer testing

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The Food and Drug Administration unveiled plans to regulate thousands of diagnostic tests, including many coming from the exploding field ...

Market for DNA-sequencing-based Down Syndrome tests could top $6 billion

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On Wednesday night the New England Journal of Medicine published a study showing that a new, DNA-sequencing based blood test ...
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Quest Diagnostics challenges Myriad’s monopoly of breast cancer gene tests

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Myriad Genetics, whose patents on two cancer-related genes were invalidated by the Supreme Court in June, could face a strong ...
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No, this is not how the human face might look in 100,000 years

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One artist’s vision of what humanity will look like in 100,000 years includes huge eyes and foreheads. Apparently, we’re all ...

This protein could change biotech forever

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The following is an edited excerpt. A tiny molecular machine used by bacteria to kill attacking viruses could change the ...

David Cox, genomics pioneer emblematic of Pfizer’s new era, dies unexpectedly

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The following is an excerpt. David Cox, a geneticist and senior vice president at Pfizer, has died unexpectedly, the company ...

DNA sequencing: Is science fiction becoming medical fact?

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In two papers in major scientific journals, researchers today suggested pushing DNA sequencing into more routine use in the clinic, ...
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