20 year study on psychological impact of gene testing

In the background of the mounting negative publicity agianst consumer gene testing companies. Navigenics is teaming up with Scripps reseacrh institute to study how such tests affect patient behavior. This is a long time study, over 20 years. with help from Affymetrix to Scan, Navigenics to interpret and offer life style guidance and the Microsoft [...]

Entire Genome Sequencing from Single Molecule DNA

Cambridge based Helicos Bioscience announced the publication of a report in Science Magazine demonstrating the first single molecule sequencing of an organism (M13 virus genome) examining more than 280,000 strands of captured DNA. Helicos’ uses a proprietary form of sequencing-by-synthesis called True Single Molecule Sequencing(tSMS)™. Unlike other methods, the technique builds up the sequence of [...]

Searching Through DNA – Impact of new genetics technologies in American Life

One of the reader had posted a question about my earlier post on genetics of Transplant Organ Rejection so this post is a part answer to her comment, I choose the title american way of life as my first post in 2008 is not mine but an interesting article from Newyork Times A good article [...]

Cryptography with DNA binary strands

Biotechnological methods can be used for cryptography. DNA binary strands can be used for steganography to provide rapid encryption and decryption. It is shown that DNA steganography based on DNA binary strands is secure under the assumption that an interceptor has the same technological capabilities as sender and receiver of encrypted messages. I thought this [...]

DNA-based security solutions to Prevent fraud and theft

Applied DNA Solutions is NewYork company that offers DNA-based security solutions to Prevent fraud and theft Applied DNA Sciences’ technology has been utilized to successfully mark nearly 1 billion items including DVDs and CDs, fine art, prestige wine, luxury and personal care goods botanical DNA encryption, embedment and authentication solutions that can help protect companies, [...]

MIT team discovers new DNA modification in bacteria acting as DNA Bookmark

Researchers from MIT have discovered that bacterial genes, known as the dnd gene cluster, gives bacteria the ability to employ DNA modification by adding sulfur to the sugar-phosphate DNA backbone as a phosphorothioate, The same method used in laboratories worldwide to modify synthetic oligonucleotide.Why would bacteria conserve this system which requires five enzymes, each with [...]

New Microarray technology replacing PCR and speed up HTS

Dr. Richard Gibbs, director of the Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing Centre and his researchers along with the help of  NimbleGen Systems the  company recently acquired by Roche Applied Science has developed a new technique that combines gene chip technology with the latest generation of gene sequencing machines to allow fast and accurate sequencing of selected [...]

So Thats how Humans Evolved! – Now we can begin to answer the big question

Which of the thousands of long stretches of repeated DNA in the human genome came first? And which are the duplicates the question have been answered by a team of scientists from University of Washington School of Medicine and University of California, San Diego.The research published by Evan Eichler from the University of Washington School [...]

A new strain of virus named after Washington University

A new strain of virus has been identified by the medical school and named the “WU” virus after Washington University. The virus, a type known as a polyomavirus, is closely related to two others, JC and BK, which attack the nervous system of HIV patients and cause kidney transplants to fail, respectively. The virus has [...]

Transposon insertion site profiling chip (TIP-chip)

Transposon insertion site profiling chip (TIP-chip) was invented by Researchers at the Johns Hopkins’ High Throughput Biology Center. Tip-chip can be used to help identify otherwise elusive disease-causing mutations in the 97 percent of the genome long believed to be “junk.” TIP-chip (transposable element insertion point) can locate in the genome where so-called jumping genes [...]

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Microsoft Research, HIV, SPAM – MS anti-spam techniques help research HIV vaccines

Ever heard of the Teiresias algorithm, for spam detection developed by Chung-Kwei at IBM – the algorithm was developed in the bioinformatics group of IBM to detect patterns in DNA This algorithm is tested for SPAM detection- discussed in my  my earlier bioinformatics post So you may be wodering whats thats got to do with [...]

DNA test results in three days, or Money Back

IDENTIGENE Becomes First DNA Testing Lab to Promise Fast Results with a Money-Back Guarantee . The company now Now Offers the Industry’s First Money-Back Guarantee, together with a Three-Day Turnaround on Results the website says IDENTIGENE is the only DNA testing lab with a money-back guarantee          

Transplant Patients Could Live Free of Anti-Rejection Drugs

Scientists from the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital and the Stanford University School of Medicine have identified a pattern of gene expression shared by a small group of patients who beat the odds and remained healthy for years without medication, after undergoing Organ transplant. The findings made by Minnie Sarwal, MD, PhD, a pediatric nephrologist at [...]

Microsoft accelerates free access to journals

Information technology company Microsoft will give technical assistance to enhance access to online research for scientists, thats when most of the publishers of scientific journals are fighting against Open Access journals. Take a look at the blog  on the subject by  Greg at nodalpoint Announced at a meeting in Washington in July Representatives from the [...]

Microsoft life science

Well every one is writing about google and its foray into biology and life science, so what is going on with Other companies . Microsoft started its BioIT alliance During 2006 and guss what Bill Gates said during the launch “Advances in our understanding of the human genome promise to revolutionize medicine and open the [...]

The IBM Clinical Genomics for targeted clinical research

THe Haifa Lab of IBM provides the Technlogy for Clinicalgenomics and leads the research in lifesciences fieds. The Clinica, Genomics division plans to provide technology to integrate clinial genomics data and HL7 and other complaince protocls followed in clinical research and clinia, trial and integrate them to provide better and focused clinical trials Clinical genomics [...]

Girls Really Do Prefer Pink? Yes Owe to evolutionary influences

Ok I did laugh a bit at that story, but interesting ha. according to a study outlined in a report in the Aug. 21 issue of the journal Current Biology Females do have a preference for pinkish colors that males don’t. So whats the evolutionary reason , well the same old story females used to [...]

Google Health -health information storage

interestingly I found this image from an earlier post of Bertalan at scienceroll The story according to the blog Google Blogoscoped, Google’s nascent Google Health product, codenamed “Weaver”, will offer consumers the opportunity to create a central repository for their health records, including medications, history, test results and allergies. The blog has a number of [...]

multipathogen- and chemical-detection Microarray.

CombiMatrix announced that the DoD has awarded a one-year, $2.2 mln contract to CombiMatrix for further development of its microarray technologies for a multipathogen- and chemical-detection system.