Affymetrix expands into personalized medicine The next big thing

Affymetrix expands into personalized medicine! Why because The next big thing in health care? is You the individual personalized medicine is the place step every one wants to be. Roche recently went after Nimblegen for a small foothold in this developing ssicne field, Now its the turn of Affymetrix the leader in microarray DNA chips. [...]

Tougher times for Drug Resistant Bacteria

The Secret of how to prevent bacteria from developing drug resistance has been revealed in a new study.Drugs called bisphosphonates, widely prescribed for bone loss has been found to help in preventing an enzyme that helps in conjugation of bacteria, by help of which it derives drug resistance. Many highly-drug resistant bacteria rely on an [...]

Genetics and Business

I have been busy lately but found some time to go through an interesting story and a good article published in scientist magazine Father-in-law of now-infamous extensively drug-resistant TB patient studies tuberculosis at the CDC, and is now under review by the agency Genotyping with PCR -How to choose the right approach I am working on an [...]

Rribozymes prevent the spread of HIV in the body

considered by some to be the ‘living fossils’ of a time when life was based on RNA -Rribozymes have been used by researchers to prevent the spread of HIV in the body The Medical Marketing International Group (MMI) scientists have used these ancient RNA catalysts to suppress key receptors that allow HIV to enter cells [...]

UK is appealing for volunteers to help worlds biggest medical experiment project- to understand impact of Genetics and life style in illness and medical treatment

 UK is appealing for volunteers to help worlds biggest medical experiment project- to understand impact of Genetics and lifestyle in health and medical treatment The  BBC reports about a medical experiment aiming to be the biggest in the world is appealing for volunteers to help end Scotland’s reputation as the “sick man of Europe”. The [...]

12 DNA tests that Could Change Your Life-selected by Forbes

The complete list is published at forbes website Breast Cancer Adult-Onset Diabetes Obesity Drug Metabolism Crohn’s Disease Prostate Cancer Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Rett Syndrome Macular Degeneration Alzheimer’s Disease Heart Attack Gene Testing: Related Blogs eyeondna , gensherpa , OmicsOmics

Free DNA Paternity Test for Father’s Day

I am not promoting anything here but I thought it was an intersting news aswell as nothing short of odd considering the recent and ongoing news pages spend on discussing hollywood and famous fatherhood battles inside and out of court this is  one kind of an offer that Chromosomal Laboratories, Inc. a leading DNA testing [...]

ASGT unveils new Platform for Regulating Expression of therapeutic Genes

During 10th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Gene Therapy (ASGT) in Seattle a new methid for  Regulating Expression of therapeutic Genes was introduced. For many applications, gene transfer is being employed to engineer cells for therapeutic applications, chek the following links for article 1 IFR , 2 (Nature), 3 (NIH) , that require [...]

DNA repair technology in sunscreen lotion

AGI Dermatics a biotechnology company specializing in DNA skin repair and  photobiology claims to be working on a DNA damage-control product thus far is called Dimericine Currently in stage-three clinical trials. Dimericine, the company claims to contain, a customized enzyme that can recognize DNA damage caused by ultraviolet light and speed up repair “We call it a morning-after lotion. It can be used after [...]