TEXAS already screens babies at birth (with blood samples) for common genetic conditions.
Which is PUBLIC INFORMATION to Insurance Companies under the terms of medical record sharing set up by the Bush Administration... we need healthcare REFORM NOW!
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Helicos Machine Maps Professor’s Genome for $50,000 (Update1) - Bloomberg.com: "Helicos Biosciences Corp.’s gene- sequencing machine mapped the genome of a Stanford University professor, who developed the technology, for less than $50,000 using the labor of just three people, researchers reported.
The cost has dropped from about $300 million required to decode a full human genome during the early stages of gene- mapping, when multiple computers and machines were needed plus the labor of more than 250 scientists and technicians, said Stephen Quake, author of the report and co-chair of Stanford’s department of bio-engineering. The results, using Quake’s own genome, were published today in the journal Nature Biotechnology.
Helicos is one of several companies that are racing to develop faster, cheaper gene-sequencing machines that aim to make the technology more widely accessible for clinical use. Until recently, gene sequencing has been available only to well- funded academic researchers, keeping doctors from assessing the genes of individual patients as a part of standard treatment, Quake said in an Aug. 7 telephone interview."
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Which is PUBLIC INFORMATION to Insurance Companies under the terms of medical record sharing set up by the Bush Administration... we need healthcare REFORM NOW!
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Helicos Machine Maps Professor’s Genome for $50,000 (Update1) - Bloomberg.com: "Helicos Biosciences Corp.’s gene- sequencing machine mapped the genome of a Stanford University professor, who developed the technology, for less than $50,000 using the labor of just three people, researchers reported.
The cost has dropped from about $300 million required to decode a full human genome during the early stages of gene- mapping, when multiple computers and machines were needed plus the labor of more than 250 scientists and technicians, said Stephen Quake, author of the report and co-chair of Stanford’s department of bio-engineering. The results, using Quake’s own genome, were published today in the journal Nature Biotechnology.
Helicos is one of several companies that are racing to develop faster, cheaper gene-sequencing machines that aim to make the technology more widely accessible for clinical use. Until recently, gene sequencing has been available only to well- funded academic researchers, keeping doctors from assessing the genes of individual patients as a part of standard treatment, Quake said in an Aug. 7 telephone interview."
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James Resau, deputy director of special programs at the Van Andel Institute, says three million blood-stained cards, one for every Michigan baby born since 1987, are "a vast, underutilized resource."
GRAND RAPIDS -- Millions of blood-stained cards, one for every baby born in Michigan since 1987, are stored in file cabinets at the state Department of Community Health.
That's because state law requires each newborn get a poke in the heel so a few drops of blood can be squeezed out and tested for certain diseases. The cards then are filed away, kept for 21 1/2 years, then tossed out.
That's because state law requires each newborn get a poke in the heel so a few drops of blood can be squeezed out and tested for certain diseases. The cards then are filed away, kept for 21 1/2 years, then tossed out.
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