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FDA Works To Speed The Advent Of New, More Effective Personalized Medicines

As part of an agency-wide initiative to speed development of new medical products through the science of pharmacogenomics, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today issued a final guidance titled "Pharmacogenomic Data Submissions." Pharmacogenomics allows health care providers to identify sources of an individual's profile of drug response and predict the best possible treatment option...

A step toward the $1,000 personal genome using readily available lab equipment

The theoretical price of having one's personal genome sequenced just fell from the prohibitive $20 million dollars to about $2.2 million, and the goal is to reduce the amount further--to about $1,000--to make individualized prevention and treatment realistic. The sharp drop is due to a new DNA sequencing technology developed by Harvard Medical School (HMS) researchers Jay Shendure, Gregory...

Faster, low cost sequencing technologies needed to drive era of personalized medicine

DNA testing is transforming health care and medicine, but current technologies only give a snapshot of an individual's genetic makeup. Any patient wanting a complete picture of their inherited DNA, or genome, would drop their jaw at the sight of the bill -- to the current tune of $10 million or more charged for every human or mammalian-sized genome sequenced. Now, with a grant award from t...

'Personality-gene' makes songbirds curious

Whether you are an anxious type, or a fearless person - such individual differences in personality could be partly due to the genes you carry. In humans, it is hard to prove the existence of such "personality genes" - there are simply too many factors that influence human behaviour and these factors are hard to control experimentally. Birds are an easier target for research and indeed, they also...

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Tpersonal Combi from LABREPCO, Inc.

Description:Biometras Tpersonal thermocycler provides maximum performance on minimum space. Thanks to a new generation of Peltier elements, high heating and cooling rates have been achieved that, leading to short run times. With a maximum capacity of 48 x 0.2ml tubes, the Tpersonal provides half the capacity of much more expensive 96 well instruments. Alternatively, the instrument is available with a 20 well...
Company:LABREPCO, Inc.

Guava® Personal Cell Analysis 96 System from Guava Technologies

Description:The Guava PCA-96 systems provide automated, higher throughput screening of 96-well microplates or a tray of microcentrifuge tubes. This flexible sample format makes the Guava PCA-96 systems ideal for screening in basic research, target validation, assay development, and even clinical trials. Like it's smaller cousin, the Guava PCA-96 uses a green laser detection system and a one scatter detector...
Company:Guava Technologies

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Personalized medicine and technology convergence

It's been one year since the debut of MedTech Futures and it has been a pleasure and a privilege to have the opportunity to share ideas with through this forum. As this column enters its second year, I wanted to take an opportunity to briefly summarize some of the perspectives over the past year and also discuss a topic of great timeliness and importance - namely pe...

Businesses can't hide personal information losses, theft

Wisconsin businesses now are legally obligated to notify customers when their personal information has been stolen, a move that could require businesses to rethink the way they both protect information and track its use. Under Senate Bill 164, signed into law Thursday by Governor Jim Doyle, companies must inform customers of a data breach, which typically occurs when computer systems are...

Kanavas thinks personal ID theft bill will pass this year

State Senator Ted Kanavas remains optimistic that his bill requiring notification of electronic data breaches will pass the legislature yet this year. Senate Bill 164, co-authored by Kanavas, R-Brookfield, and Representative Jeff Fitzgerald, R-Horicon, would require companies that keep personal data on customers and clients to notify those people when that data is obtained by unauthoriz...

Networking for your employer is great for building your personal Rolodex

Networking for yourself is important for building relationships that will carry into your personal and professional life. At the same time, its also important to focus on networking just for your employer. The relationships you build for your company will be ones you can carry with you from job to job. Treat every relationship you build carefully. No matter what company you work for, you...

Phishing and pharming: Is your personal identity being harvested?

The terms "farming" and "fishing" have taken on new meaning, and this year's "bumper crop" might include the harvesting of your personal and business identity. Every day, millions of Internet users are bombarded with official looking e-mails sent by con artists masquerading as MasterCard, EBay, Earthlink or US Bank. <a href="http://www.wistechnology.com/article.php?id=1572...

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Personality Impacts Arthritis

The personality of a patient can have a major impact on how susceptible they are to long-term problems from rheumatoid arthritis, according to new research. The published study explains doctors need to pay attention to factors// not related to the disease when they screen at-risk patients. There is no doubt being diagnosed with a chronic, disabling disease, such as rheumatoid arthritis...

Dealing with personality disorders

The drug fluvoxamine has been found by researchers to be more effective than placebos in treating rapid mood shifts in women with borderline personality disorder. This study , which included 38 non-schizophrenic, non-bipolar women with borderline// personality disorder between the ages of 19 and 51 was conducted by researchers from various universities in Netherlands. They were evaluated for diff...

Advent of New, More Effective and Personalized Medicines

The FDA today issued a final guidance titled "Pharmacogenomic Data Submissions" to speed// development of new medical products through the science of pharmacogenomics. Pharmacogenomics allows health care providers to identify sources of an individual's profile of drug response and predict the best possible treatment option for this individual. This technology has enabled the developm...

Personality profiles of gamblers and substance abusers are similar

Individuals suffering from problem gambling behavior may share their personality// profiles with substance abusers like drug addicts and alcoholics. Researchers have been able to identify personality traits of problem gambling behavior in people and have found marked semblance with those of substance abusers. Researchers in their research have pointed out that people who seek help for...

Treatment of postpartum depression needs to be personalized

In order to provide quick relief from post pregnancy depressions, health care// workers have tried to identify women who may be more vulnerable to this type of depression and taken preventive measures to avoid the condition. However a recent study by the researcher of University of Toronto, Canada who had reviewed 15 randomized control trials on 7,697 women had said that it is possible to prevent...

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PVA, The Personal Vision Assistant

Description:PVA is a remarkable new electronic magnification system. It was designed with the special needs of the macular degeneration patient in mind. PVA contains many new functions including a mirror attachment to allow you to see your face to shave or put on makeup and a 350,000 pixel full color camera. It connects easily to most television....
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Bellco Personal Microplate Orbis Shaker

Description:The Orbis Personal Plate Shaker are designed to give reliable performance for all mixing requirements of 96 & 384-well microplates. The on/off button, power supply socket and fuse holder are conveniently located on the side of the unit. The speed knob is located on the bottom of the unit for adjustment of speed from a minimum 950 rpm to a maximum of 1300 rpm....
Company:Bellco Glass, Inc.

Bellco Personal Microplate Orbis Shaker w/Timer & Lid

Description:Personal Plate Shaker with Timer are designed to give reliable performance for all mixing requirements of 96 & 384-well microplates. The on/off button, power supply socket and fuse holder are conveniently located on the side of the unit. The speed knob is located on the bottom of the unit for adjustment of speed from a minimum 950 rpm to a maximum of 1300 rpm....
Company:Bellco Glass, Inc.

Pol-O.R. BearPersonal Air Conditioning System

Description:Keep yourself cool and your patient warm, with the award winning Pol-O.R. Bear personal cooling system.Designed around the Coanda Effect, thousands of tiny holes produce effective localized air flow around your torso's blush zones to keep you cool during the heat and stress induced environment of the operating room....
Company:Texan Corporation

T4 Personal Protection System

Description:Stryker Instruments, the leader in surgical helmets, offers its 4th generation of personal protection systems for todays surgical environment the Sterishield T4 System....
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Fat Kills Cancer: Turning Stem Cells from Fat Tissue into Personalized, Cancer-Targeted Therapeutics

PHILADELPHIA, July 3, 2007 ? Researchers in Slovakia havebeen able to derive mesenchymal stem cells from human adipose, orfat, tissue and engineer them into “suicide genes” that seek out and destroy tumors like tiny homing missiles. This gene therapy approach is a novel way to attack smalltumor metastases that evade current detection techniques andtreatments, the researchers...

ChemGenex Reports Successful Personalized Dosing of Quinamed at ASCO

-- Genotypically Optimized Dosing Results in Improved Toleranceand Evidence of Anticancer Activity -- MELBOURNE, Australia, and MENLO PARK, California U.S.A. June 04,2007-ChemGenex Pharmaceuticals (ASX: CXS, NASDAQ: CXSP) announcedtoday the presentation of data from its Quinamed (amonafidedihydrochloride) phase 1/2a dose-escalation study, designed toidentify a genotypically optimis...

ChemGenex Reports Successful Personalized Dosing of Quinamed at ASCO

MELBOURNE, Australia & MENLO PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun4, 2007 - ChemGenex Pharmaceuticals (ASX: CXS, NASDAQ: CXSP)announced today the presentation of data from its Quinamed(R)(amonafide dihydrochloride) phase 1/2a dose-escalation study,designed to identify a genotypically optimised dose of Quinamed inheavily pre-treated patients with a variety of solid tumors. Thekey outcomes f...

Making Science Personal: Lilly Oncology to Unveil 76 Studies at ASCO 2007

37 Thoracic Cancer Studies; 11 Breast Cancer Studies; 9 TargetedAgent Studies INDIANAPOLIS, May 23, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- LillyOncology will unveil 76 studies at the 43rd Annual Meeting of theAmerican Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in Chicago, Ill. fromJune 1-5, 2007. The company will present important data onGEMZAR(R) (gemcitabine HCl for injection), ALIMTA(R) (pemetrexedf...

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