Life Science

Debate on personal medicine gets, er, personal

Evidently the new FDA guidelines about moving toward using genetic profile data to differentiate drug development and prescription has kicked-off some heated discussion. A Forbes article describes a debate between a cardiologist and a drug company exec that got pretty ardent. The cardiologist said genetics-based diagnostics will be important in medicine, and the pharma exec said it won’t happen because ...

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Personalized medicine

Yesterday the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) ran an article on the first regulations to come out about “pharmacogenomics,” personalized medicine to you and me. The article’s right down the line with what I heard at BIOSILICO and explains it well. Unfortunately, I can’t link to it because the WSJ isn’t accessible without a subscription. But, I think a liberally excerpted ...

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BIOSILICO: Paradigm change

Running through BIOSILICO was a distinct vibe of big change in life sciences. The notion that already there is a pretty well developed industry begat of biology, medicine and computer science suggests that changes already have substance. That is, modern biology isn’t your father’s biology. It’s not even the biology of flora and fauna I studied in school (which brings ...

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Explanation For Overeating

ScienceDaily News Release: Researchers Home In On Obesity Gene And Offer Explanation For Overeating I’ve always suspected I had the SNAK gene.

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