Monthly Archives: March 2012

The Medical Center of Tomorrow – Video




30-03-2012 12:31 When a Group Health team was asked to design a better medical center, they dreamed big: No patient waiting. Care delivered in one room. Continue reading →

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New breast cancer susceptibility gene

ScienceDaily (Mar. 29, 2012) Mutations in a gene called XRCC2 cause increased breast cancer risk, according to a study published March 29 in the American Journal of Human Genetics Continue reading →

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Mayo v. Prometheus and Its Impact on Myriad "Gene Patenting" Case—Antoinette Konski – Video




29-03-2012 12:24 More LXBN TV interviews at: While talk this week of course focuses on the oral arguments in the Affordable Care Act case, the Supreme Court last week ruled in a very important and influential intellectual property case. In Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc., the court ruled that the patent Prometheus had obtained for correlations between blood test results and patient health is not eligible for a patent because it incorporates laws of nature. Continue reading →

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Rep. MacBeth reintroduces abortion bill

March 31, 2012 PROVIDENCE In each of the last three years, Cumberland Rep. Karen MacBeth sponsored legislation that would require doctors to offer to show and explain fetal ultrasound images to women seeking abortions. The bills died with little media or public fanfare. Continue reading →

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DNA tests identify lough remains

31 March 2012 Last updated at 11:07 ET Human remains found at the shore of Lough Foyle in County Donegal have been confirmed as being those of a missing Londonderry man. Eamonn Moore, 22, from Jefferson Court in the city centre, had not been seen since he left his apartment on 26 November last year. The remains were discovered by walkers near Redcastle on Tuesday. Continue reading →

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DNA Matches Close Sexual Assault Cases

WASHINGTON – Six years after D.C. police began looking for DNA in hundreds of backlogged sexual assault cases, the work is paying off. Suspects have been identified through matches in the national DNA databank and arrests have been made. Continue reading →

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Foods in the Year 2000

A lot of proposed synthetic biology applications can seem pretty out there, but some are really out there. Continue reading →

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In Print: March's Bioinformatics Papers of Note

Langmead B, Salzberg SL. Fast gapped-read alignment with Bowtie 2. Nat Methods Continue reading →

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Bristol Evening Post published Prominent doctor fails to overturn his ban on contacting former…

A FORMER Bristol Medical School lecturer and renowned researcher has failed to get a restraining order against him lifted. Continue reading →

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NCIAP – People’s Medical Care – Raleigh – featured on ABC News – Video




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Amazon And The NIH Team Up To Put Human Genome In The Cloud

Sarah currently works as a writer for TechCrunch, after having previously spent over three years at ReadWriteWeb. Prior to becoming a professional blogger, Sarah worked in I.T. Continue reading →

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Five-fold jump in IVF donors as payment for eggs rises to £750

The recession will further help fuel the rise in the number of women coming forward, claim campaigners By Rachel Ellis PUBLISHED: 16:56 EST, 30 March 2012 | UPDATED: 16:56 EST, 30 March 2012 The payment to women donating their eggs for use in IVF will triple from 250 to 750 tomorrow. The extra money on offer is said to have led to five-fold increase in women approaching clinics to donate their eggs to infertile couples. The recession will only further help fuel the rise in the number of women coming forward, campaigners claimed last night Continue reading →

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New DNA technique aids arrest in West Deer slayings

Allegheny County homicide detectives have made their first arrest with the help of a new technique that dramatically increases the probability that DNA found at a crime scene matches a suspect. Police on Friday charged James Yeckel Jr., 53, with two counts of homicide for the Sept. 8 shotgun slayings of his parents, James Sr. Continue reading →

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Convict DNA fast-tracked

ALBANY The state is making August the start-up date for collecting DNA samples from everyone convicted of a felony or penal misdemeanor. Collection of all-crimes DNA will begin two months sooner than originally authorized in the law passed this month. The measure will roughly double the number of collections made with saliva swabs currently taken from all felons and people convicted of any of 36 misdemeanors. Continue reading →

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Saif-Kareena jodi fails to impress on-screen

Ruhail Amin, Glamsham Editorial Ever since AGENT VINOD released, the on screen chemistry between Saif and Kareena has become a juicy topic for gossip mongers. Continue reading →

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Bachelor's Degrees 03/31/12

The following students from west-central Wisconsin have earned bachelor’s degrees: UW-River Falls Roberts: Emily Dusek, horticulture. Sheldon: Jason Malisheski, biology. Somerset: Jennifer Gilewski, accounting; Andrea Dettmann, elementary education; Amanda Haase, agricultural education Continue reading →

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Discover This Adds 4D Anatomy Models to its Offering of Science Kits

Discover This, the Internet’s leading retailer of educational science kits and toys, is excited to announce the addition of 4D Anatomy Models to its extensive selection of science kits for kids. The collaboration will expand Discover This’ biology and anatomy model category as the company looks to build upon existing collaborations with educational youth organizations, schools, and home … Continue reading →

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Your child's milk tooth can save her life

New Delhi, March 30 (IANS) Is your child about to lose her milk tooth? Instead of throwing it away, you can now opt to use it to harvest stem cells in a dental stem cell bank for future use in the face of serious ailments. Now that's a tooth fairy story coming to life. Continue reading →

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"Backpacking" Bacteria Ferry Nano-Medicines

Featured Article Main Category: Medical Devices / Diagnostics Also Included In: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses;Biology / Biochemistry Article Date: 30 Mar 2012 – 12:00 PDT email to a friend printer friendly opinions Current Article Ratings: This week, at the 243rd National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS) in San Diego, Dr David H Gracias, from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, gave an account of the progress he and his team are making in this area. Gracias told the press: “Cargo-carrying bacteria may be an answer to a major roadblock in using nano-medicine to prevent, diagnose and treat disease.” Nano-technology concerns itself with making ultra-tiny devices, small enough to fit a million or so on the head of a pin Continue reading →

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'Backpacking' bacteria help ferry nano-medicines inside humans

ScienceDaily (Mar. 29, 2012) To the ranks of horses, donkeys, camels and other animals that have served humanity as pack animals or beasts of burden, scientists are now enlisting bacteria to ferry nano-medicine cargos throughout the human body. Continue reading →

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