Pathology News
Bill Gates, Eric Lander, Maynard Olson, Leena Peltonen, and George Church fielded questions recently at a fascinating panel discussion on personal genomics at the University of Washington. Beware the flood!!Eric Lander started the night by...
Reposted from Dark Daily. Follow up on previous post here. Because healthcare is about to embark on a major digitization of paper records, lots of new corporate players are positioning themselves to profit from this activity. The...
BusinessWeek (4/18, Backman) reported that after investing "in a genetic screening company, 23andMe," Google is now "also putting money into a second Silicon Valley DNA-screening startup, Navigenics." The company "aims...
Exposure to formaldehyde may increase risk of developing ALS, study suggests Reuters (4/17, Steenhuysen) reports that according to findings presented at a meeting of the American Academy of Neurology in Chicago, researchers at the Harvard...
The U.K.'s Guardian (4/17, Randerson) reports that the "era of mass genome sequencing to assess risks of genetic disease comes a step closer today with the publication of" a second "human genome sequence," according to an...
I have been considering a post dealing with the amount of material online and in-print involving children and what it means for their safety. For example, there are countless, albeit very well done and highly personal "mommy"...
