]> http://www.healthedia.com/tags/genetic-future Blog Articles Tagged with 'genetic-future' at http://www.healthedia.com en http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/922874?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-future I chanced upon this article - Genetic testing under the microscope - in the Los Angeles Times of an interview with the President of the National Society of Genetic Counselors, Angela Trepanier, and she presents an interesting perspective on the futu... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/922874?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-future Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:34:50 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/923561?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-future I chanced upon this article - Genetic testing under the microscope - in the Los Angeles Times of an interview with the President of the National Society of Genetic Counselors, Angela Trepanier, and she presents an interesting perspective on the futu... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/923561?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-future Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:34:50 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/891095?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-future It is universally accepted that genetic testing is here to stay and will play a major role in health management. Common sense dictates that it is good health management to understand what diseases an individual is susceptible to, so that steps... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/891095?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-future Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:07:51 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/890757?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-future Leon Kass served as chairman of the bioethics council charged with advising US President George W. Bush on many hot bioscience issues such as stem cell research and cloning.Noted for his frankness and pretty much misogynistic ideals, once yo... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/890757?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-future Sun, 24 Feb 2008 06:59:59 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/888822?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-future Junk DNA could hold the key to the evolution of complex organisms . Vertebrates, animals that possess a backbone, are the most anatomically and genetically complex of all organisms, but explaining how they achieved this complexity has perple... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/888822?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-future Tue, 12 Feb 2008 07:49:03 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/887438?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-future Nature constantly shuffles our genes around in our genome, creating a genetic cocktail of human chromosomes and trying out different changes as it does so. Some of these changes represent neither a positive nor a negative mutation or a com... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/887438?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-future Sun, 03 Feb 2008 10:05:29 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/886301?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-future Micrograph images of synthetic Mycoplasma genitalium J Craig Venter and his team at the J Craig Venter Institute Rockville, Md. Venter continue to expand our horizons of what constitutes life. They have built, from scratch, a synthetic chromoso... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/886301?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-future Sun, 27 Jan 2008 05:52:47 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/885370?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-future The EU funded GEN2PHEN project plans to internationally orchestrate the electronic gathering and use of data that show how gene sequences ( genotypes ) contribute to individual differences in disease, drug response, and other characteristics ( ... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/885370?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-future Tue, 22 Jan 2008 04:57:30 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/885222?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-future Early embryos yield stem cells,(photo courtesy of BBC news www.bbc.co.uk/news) The Uk s fertility regulator Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has given the green light to two teams of scientists for the creation of hybrid human-... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/885222?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-future Mon, 21 Jan 2008 08:31:31 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/883879?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-future Grace at Kids Health Notes and Kristina at Autism Vox have both written about the gene CNTNAP2 being unequivocally implicated in Type 1 Autism.In her article CNTNAP2, an autism susceptibility gene which I highly recommend, Kristina writes a persona... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/883879?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-future Sat, 12 Jan 2008 03:28:43 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/883506?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-future Breast awareness and regular checking are important in early detection of breast cancerFurther to my articles on the BRCA breast cancer genes, an American and Danish study has found the risk of developing cancer amongst carriers of the BRCA1 and 2 ... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/883506?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-future Thu, 10 Jan 2008 02:26:35 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/882941?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-future Male Down s Syndrome with trisome at chromosome 21People with Down s Syndrome are less likey to get solid tumor cancers, research from Johns Hopkins University has revealed.Up to 95% of Down s syndrome cases are caused by trisomy 21 ,... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/882941?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-future Sun, 06 Jan 2008 11:13:30 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/882472?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-future (Stylized rendering of a cross section of the AIDS virus)New HIV infections are averaging around 2.5m per annum worldwide, and growing.Most people infected with HIV produce antibodies against the virus within several weeks following infection, th... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/882472?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-future Thu, 03 Jan 2008 05:12:56 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/881982?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-future DNA profilingThere has been a recent case in Northern Ireland whereby an Omagh bombing suspect was cleared of all murder charges as the integrity of the forensic test which made up the bulk of the prosecution case was c... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/881982?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-future Sun, 30 Dec 2007 03:33:30 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/881354?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-future The University of Michigan study titled Nature vs. Nurture in Ventral Visual Cortex: An fMRI Study of Twins has published evidence that our brains are hardwired before birth to recognize faces and places. But in contrast, the neural circuitry w... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/881354?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-future Mon, 24 Dec 2007 04:34:30 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/880068?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-future Further to my articles on FDA approved Mammaprint, Agendia BV, world leader in the rapidly evolving field of molecular diagnostics, announced that an independent international consortium has demonstrated the prognostic power of its MammaPrint breast... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/880068?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-future Sat, 15 Dec 2007 06:51:55 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/880069?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-future My team and I at Opaldia are reeling with the amazing world-wide press we have received for partnering and supporting the development and distribution of DiaGenic s breast cancer early detection test, through our national network of breast c... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/880069?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-future Sat, 15 Dec 2007 06:40:36 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/879528?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-future There is increasing evidence that there is a genetic link between schizophrenia and cancer, providing a surprising possible scientific explanation for lower rates of cancer among patients with schizophrenia - despite having poor diets and high rates ... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/879528?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-future Wed, 12 Dec 2007 06:12:11 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/879180?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-future A sickle cell compared with with a normal red blood cellFurther to my blog on retrieving stem cells from skin cells , scientists in Alabama and Massachusetts have reporteda key next step when they used the stem cell technique to give mice with sic... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/879180?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-future Tue, 11 Dec 2007 08:24:25 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/879181?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-future There s a widely held belief that Humans have slowed, if not come to a grinding halt in terms of evolution. Not so says Professor Henry Harpending, an author of a study from the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, US. His study findings ... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/879181?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-future Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:45:57 -0500