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The holy grail for lowering the cost of DNA sequencing is to build a machine that can sequence an entire individual human genome for $1,000. That price-point is perhaps the point at which routinely decoding the full genome as part of an individual’s basic medical data becomes attractive. That achievement is still quite a ways away, but here’s an article ...

Here’s a link to a large list of articles about cancer that the NYTimes has published. The good thing is that these articles will be available free instead of being sent to the fee-based archive

We’ve been having a little email discussion about obesity. It resulted in some links to sites with interesting visuals to contemplate. Randy Moss started with the "Obesity Map." Colleen Doyle offered this Burger King ad posted on YouTube. And Randy came back with this Big Huckin’ Chicken ad. What do you think?

Popular Science has an article that purports to describe the "future of medicine." In typical Popular Science fashion, it’s got a lot of diagrams and paintings of cell-level devices that they claim will be used in treatment of cancer and other diseases. Worth a look.