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            <title>Synthetic Life Created: The First “Micro-Avatar”</title>
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            <description>For the first time in history, a living organism has been manufactured with the help of a computer-generated genome. Dr. Jon LaPook reports on the groundbreaking discovery&amp;#8217;s widespread implications.

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The First Micro-Avatar
Craig Venter and his team of scientists recently announced that they had created the first “synthetic cell” &amp;#8212; a bacterium controlled by genetic material that they had designed on a computer and concocted from four bottles of chemicals. This is the closest thing to creating life that has happened outside of a science-fiction movie. If it doesn’t fire your imagination, then you should fire your imagination.
Basically, what Venter et al did was remove the “brain” (the genetic material that runs the cell) from one species o...</description>
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            <description>GeneticsWatch     Creating Life and Curing Blindness       May 21, 2010     Tags:   Venter, DNA, creating life, genome, American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy, gene therapy, blindness    I’ve been at the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy annual meeting this week, garnering tales for my book, tentatively entitled “The Forever Fix.” It is largely the story of 9-year-old Corey Haas, who was on his way to certain blindness when gene therapy performed at the University of Pennsylvania in September 2008restored his failing vision. Francis Collins, director of the NIH, told Congress about Corey last week.Corey, his parents, and “Dr. Jean” Bennett, who made it all possible, were the stars of a press conference and a huge symposium. Corey got up on stage and calmly and clearly ...</description>
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            <title>Biobanking Throwdown: 2nd Round</title>
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            <description>We had posted earlier about the ongoing debate on the ethics of DNA databasing -- here is round two in the debate. Our poll is still open, let us know where you stand! (Source: Women's Bioethics Blog)</description>
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            <title>BiobankingThrowdown: The Ethics of DNA Databasing</title>
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            <description>Do you agree or disagree with the following proposition? (take our poll and we'll compare it with the Economist's poll results) :People's DNA sequences are their own business, and no one else's. Art Caplan and Craig Venter go toe-to-toe on this issue, with Art Caplan defending the privacy of DNA and Craig Venter arguing for public access. An excerpt of the discourse:Art Caplan: &quot;There are, it is increasingly said, plenty of reasons why people you know and many you don't ought to have access to your DNA or data that are derived from it. Have you ever had sexual relations outside a single, monogamous relationship? Well then, any children who resulted from your hanky-panky might legitimately want access to your DNA to establish paternity or maternity&quot; ...to read more, click here.Craig Venter:...</description>
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            <title>Did you hear? Sanjay General!</title>
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            <description>Yes it is true. Pres-Elect. Obama has asked Dr Sanjay Gupta, Neurosurgeon to be Surgeon General. Before joining CNN in 2001, Gupta was a neurosurgery fellow at the University of Tennessee's Semmes-Murphy Clinic and the University of Michigan Medical Center. Gupta has some experience in politics and policy. During the Clinton administration, he was a White House Fellow and special adviser to first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. So the questions. First, what does the Surgeon General do?According to the Surgeon General's SiteThe Surgeon General serves as America's chief health educator by providing Americans the best scientific information available on how to improve their health and reduce the risk of illness and injury. The acting Surgeon General is Rear Admiral Steven K. Galson, M.D., M.P.H....</description>
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            <title>Researchers sequence first complete cancer DNA</title>
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            <description>For the first time, US researchers have decoded all the genes of a woman who died of myeloid leukemia, and they found 10 mutations that contributed to the development of her cancer. 
This finding is significant on several fronts. It&amp;#8217;s the first time that a cancer genome has been sequenced. The scientists took samples of both cancer and normal skin cells from the same woman, and sequenced the DNA on both samples. Previous to this, the focus was on select regions of the genome, called candidate regions, suspected of carrying genes that cause or contribute to cancer. 
The study also found that 8 of the 10 mutations have never been suspected as contributing to the disease. The researchers found them on every cancer cell and none in the normal samples, which suggests that these mutations ...</description>
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            <title>Democratization? Or Capitalization? Take yer pick</title>
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            <description>An old post.......interesting that I seemed to be right on track....In reading through my RSS feeder over a year ago now I stumbled across an interesting video at Testing Hiatus. It comes from the website Master Plan the Movie. This is especially timely given the new shiny 399 USD SNP scan.....which BTW is still more expensive than Coriell's Free Scan!Before you watch this YouTube video I first would like you to take a gander at an excerpt from &quot;The Google Story&quot;Sergey Brin and Larry Page have ambitious long-term plans for Google's expansion into the fields of biology and genetics through the fusion of science, medicine, and technology. . . .One of the most exciting Google projects involves biological and genetic research that could foster important medical and scientific breakthroughs. Th...</description>
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            <title>BIO 2008: The Sequencer and the Terminator</title>
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            <description>Scheduled meetings kept me from the events I’d most wanted to attend:
• the live versions of Schwarzenegger’s and Craig Venter’s keynotes (I made it to the tail end of the “overflow” line, where we were treated to lunch and the keynotes on video)
• a meeting of former FDA commissioners, “A Blueprint for FDA” in which [...] (Source: On Pharma)</description>
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            <title>Sequencing genome of celebrities - causing alarm</title>
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            <description>(Image credit: medicineworld.org) 
This week b5 media&amp;#8217;s Health and Wellness channel is focusing on celebrities health.  Our focus is not on &amp;#8216;tittle tattle&amp;#8217;  and hot gossip about Angelina, Brad or &amp;#8217;Tomkat&amp;#8217; but rather a serious look at health issues that high profile individuals share with all of us. 
In the genetics world, our &amp;#8216;celebrities&amp;#8217; are the likes of Craig Venter and James Watson - pioneering geneticists but basking in the eye of the media.
The race to sequence genomes has resulted in some major PR, particularly for Craig and James. 454 is sequencing James Watson&amp;#8217;s genome and Craig has announced some of his results in PLoS.  TV star Larry King, cosmologist Stephen Hawking, Google co-founder Larry Page, Microsoft co-founder Paul...</description>
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            <title>Craig Venter and his fourth generation fuels</title>
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Geneticist Craig Venter has announced that he is creating a life form that feeds on climate-ruining carbon dioxide to produce fuel.  He disclosed his potentially world-changing &amp;#8220;fourth-generation fuel&amp;#8221; project at an elite Technology, Entertainment and Design conference in California. Among the audience were Al Gore and Google co-founder Larry Page.
Biofuel alternatives to oil are third-generation. The next step, Venter says, is to re-engineer existing life forms that feed on CO2 and give off fuel such as methane gas as waste.  Simple organisms can be genetically re-engineered to produce vaccines or octane-based fuels as waste.
Venter&amp;#8217;s team is using synthetic chromosomes to modify organisms that already exist, not making new life.  The limiting part of the equati...</description>
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            <title>New England Journal, Prostate Cancer and Babel</title>
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            <description>This study Blows mere family history out of the water. This study, dubbed CAPS, evaluated Prostate Cancer in Sweden. The analysis of SNPs revealed 5 SNPs which had significant risk implicated...Here's the kicker, if a person has 4 SNPs and Family History, then your Odds Ratio for Having Prostate Cancer is.....get this 9.46 compared to the men who had none of these factors. Take That PSA and Digital Rectal Exam!Now where does this study have shortcomings?1. It is retrospective and this is subject to bias, therefore needing prospective analysis before we will use it.2. This population is a relatively homogeneous population that breeds nationally3. Only one of the SNPs has an identifiable gene. Without a gene, we can only guess what role the SNP may play let alone devise a medication or treat...</description>
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            <title>Synthetic Biology on the Radio</title>
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            <description>Definitely worth listening to the RadioLab show episode &quot;So-Called Life&quot;. The second act describes some &quot;MIT bioengineering kids&quot; who engineered sweet smelling E.coli. I'm sure some of them interviewed hang out at OWW, like Reshma. The sound effects for gene exchange and &quot;The BioEngineers song&quot; at the end of the 2nd act is definitely worth listening to. Still trying to find a link to the song itsself.
The third act talks with founder of Codon Devices, George Church, and Craig. They describe George &quot;as Santa Clause as played by Clark Gable.&quot;
We salute a show singing the praises of mighty microbes.	
	
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            <title>Be Ready Ad and Pat Sajak</title>
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            <description>That's right I saw the Be Ready Ad in between Vanna and Pat. The Sherpa is a &quot;Wheel Watcher&quot; I am always amazed with people. My mother-in-law was sitting with me and she said &quot;Should I get this test?&quot; I said &quot;Wha???&quot; She said, &quot;Will it let me skip mammograms?&quot; I honestly was blown away by this. Especially because she is a nurse. If you are a nurse, you should be health literate. Unfortunately, she is not genetics literate. I then went to give her my counseling shtick and tell her that no one in her family has breast/ovarian cancer. &quot;So why does that lower my risk?&quot; she asked? This is why Ellen Matloff has her website. I am certain that this testing has identified many people not normally thought to be at risk because of limited family structure i.e. all men relatives (But they still could ...</description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:59:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Don't Be Evil? Devil to Ben.......</title>
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            <description>An old post.......interesting that I seemed to be right on track....In reading through my RSS feeder I stumbled across an interesting video at Testing Hiatus. It comes from the website Master Plan the Movie. Before you watch this YouTube video I first would like you to take a gander at an excerpt from &quot;The Google Story&quot;Sergey Brin and Larry Page have ambitious long-term plans for Google's expansion into the fields of biology and genetics through the fusion of science, medicine, and technology. . . .One of the most exciting Google projects involves biological and genetic research that could foster important medical and scientific breakthroughs. Through this effort, Google may help accelerate the era of personalized medicine, in which understanding an individual's precise genetic makeup can ...</description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 03:16:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>The Gene Genie!!!!</title>
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            <description>In an article entitled &quot;Letting the Genome out of the Bottle — Will We Get Our Wish?&quot; in the New England Journal of Medicine, I am left questioning if Drs Khoury and Drazen read the Sherpa.These are several themes that I have been raising about Genome Scans and have even spoken with several news reporters and journalists about. From the Article: It may happen soon. A patient, perhaps one you have known for years, who is overweight and does not exercise regularly, shows up in your office with an analysis of his whole genome at multiple single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). His children, who were concerned about his health, spent $1,000 to give him the analysis as a holiday gift. The test report states that his genomic profile is consistent with an increased risk of both heart disease an...</description>
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            <title>Wall Street Journal Agrees....We Need More Sherpas</title>
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            <description>In the WSJ today and also on GTO it seems we have a common theme. Something perhaps that I have been saying all along. It is nice to see Gautam agree with me....From the Article:Ever since the human genome was deciphered seven years ago, companies have been rushing to sell genetic tests directly to consumers. But buyers, beware: Many of the claims that accompany these tests are not fully supported by science.Read my post about itdeCODE genetics' test for a gene variant linked to Type 2 diabetes: Some research says the predictive value is weak....&quot;The predictive value of the genetic test is pretty poor,&quot; says David Melzer, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Exeter, England. Last year, Prof. Melzer and colleagues published a study based on data collected from more than 900 elde...</description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:33:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Updates from the Burrill Conference</title>
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            <description>Lo and Behold, the Sherpa goes looking for some updates, Epidemix and Wired deliver. My favorite line from Wired is &quot;Early medical testing and treatment could save patients and healthcare providers a ton of money, but nobody wants to pay for unproven and often expensive new lab work. FDA approval is not required for laboratory tests, but it is an indicator that products are actually beneficial to doctors and patients.&quot;The best lines from Epidemix areWe’ll see about that - but there were three telling stats that came up during the day. Together, they make quite the case for personalized medicine.1) Half of all prescriptions don’t work for the patients. Most drugs have an efficacy between 20 and 80 percent, averaging around 50 percent. Meaning that they only have their intended effect ha...</description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:14:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>I never realized</title>
            <link>http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1021386&amp;cid=t_98706_131_f&amp;fid=35743&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fthegenesherpa.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F11%2Fi-never-realized.html</link>
            <description>This article from the Minnesota Star Tribune raises some questions and reminds us that not all support personalized medicine. We do have detractors. This is why we must not become a mutual admiration society. There is much work to be done to convince the public AND the health care field!The Sherpa Says: Perceived competition is misperception. I think Berci has already pointed this out. We need to form partnerships to pilot this ship! (Source: Gene Sherpas: Personalized Medicine and You)</description>
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            <title>Scienceroll reviews Personalized Medicine Companies</title>
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            <description>Today, Bertalan Mesko at Scienceroll has reviewed three companies. Navigenics, 23 and Me, and Helix Health. For full disclosure, I am not only the owner of Helix Health, I am also a patient. My family has a significant genetic background for disease. Because of this, I was motivated to change the paradigm of current medical/genetics practice.Berci does a nice job of describing the companies and what he estimates their best attributes.&quot;If we could merge the real advantages of these companies:the fantastic team of Navigenics and their unique business model;the financial background of 23andMe; the focus on genealogy information and social networking; the personal aspect of Helix Health and their potential to serve and help physicians as well, …then it would be the perfect service. But it’...</description>
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            <title>What the F*&amp;^</title>
            <link>http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=918131&amp;cid=t_98706_131_f&amp;fid=35743&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fthegenesherpa.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F10%2Fwhat-f.html</link>
            <description>After reading Hsien's recent post, I am convinced how very much the UK needs a Sherpa. Listen to what is going on in Great Britain from Eye On DNA. &quot;The UK Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has approved the use of preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) to select embryos free of the gene for early-onset Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The couple who applied has a family history of the disease on the man’s side. His mother, grandmother, and two uncles all died from early-onset Alzheimer’s.&quot;Human Genetics Alert has been fighting the good Sherpa fight for years. The problem....the UK is still approving these techniques. I hate to tell all of you, but this is what is coming. Why scan a genome? Why do lightspeed sequencing when you have time to wait? Why? The answer is simple. To rap...</description>
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            <title>LRP8 and Familial MI....Ho Hum</title>
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            <description>This month in the American Journal of Human Genetics we have some interesting publications. Including an association study identifying a gene known as LRP8. So what is LRP8? It is a receptor for bad cholesterol. When bad cholesterol binds this receptor, platelets (the bricks in your blood that build a clot) become sticky making it easier to thrombose (form a clot).I am interested in this study for several reasons. First, it has been shown that platelets get stick even after ingesting a Big Mac. That's correct. Just one fast food hamburger can theoretically precipitate a heart attack. So naturally we would love to know who. Think Personalized Diet/Nutrigenomics. I wonder if Salugen can hear me now? I still haven't received their &quot;Scientific Data&quot; yet. I will publicize it if they do.Back to ...</description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 23:36:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>1000 Genomes???? Coming Soon.</title>
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            <description>I have been looking at the genome of Craig Ventner. What Surprises me is that we haven't do this sooner. If you haven't heard the diploid genotype of Craig Ventner is up. And several of my buddy bloggers have posted on it. Blaine posted on it here and has a nice wrap up.From The Canadian site The Globe and MailMost experts predict that routinely reading individual genomes will become a reality within five years as the technology to unravel the six billion chemical units that make up DNA gets faster and cheaper. Kathy Siminovitch, director of genomic medicine at Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital and the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, noted that the first Human Genome Project rang in at roughly $1-billion (U.S). But with the new generation of &quot;ultra-fast&quot; DNA sequencing machines that have...</description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 23:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Travel Back in Time to Synthetic Biology 3.0, Zurich</title>
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            <description>For those interested in synthetic biology (and if you're not you should be), videos of almost all the talks from Synthetic Biology 3.0 in Zurich are now available for download. Here are my personal favorites and some reflections on the conference: George Church, Harvard Medical SchoolReading , Writing and Evolving Genomes Although I did find the talk a bit disjointed and rushed (I guess my brain was too slow to keep up), this talk gets you up to speed on the state of the art and the current challenges in genome-scale DNA synthesis. If you look really closely you can see me in the front row struggling to take in everything displayed on the giant IMAX-like projector screen a few feet away.Pam Silver, Harvard Medical SchoolDesigning Biological Memory and LogicPam had some great videos of euka...</description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 21:06:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Combinatorial genomics</title>
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            <description>I have recently become addicted to the TED talks. I caught the TED talk by Craig Venter on various projects stemming from the initiatives undertaken by the Venter Institute and his affiliated companies. One of the exciting things he talked about was the coming field of combinatorial genomics (CG). CG is basically a marriage between synthetic biology and genomics. Basically it will deal with creating &amp;#8220;synthetic&amp;#8221; life forms with desired properties that are obtained by screening a library of such microbes obtained from combining genes from a multitude of organisms.
This is of course possible given the following five technologies.
Knowledge of a minimal subset: Work on the &amp;#8220;minimal genome project&amp;#8221; resulted in the minimal set of genes required to have a living reproducin...</description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 03 Jun 2007 07:48:30 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Venter on the Colbert Report</title>
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            <description>Last night on the Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert interviewed Craig Venter about his work with the human genome and the potential future impact of related discoveries, including discussion of possible conflicts of interest associated with commercial development of genome-related initiatives (e.g. synthetic genomics).A little history about controversy etc. surrounding Venter's work is available in this Time magazine article and this article from Wired magazine. (Source: Clinical Evidence, Searching Tidbits, and Other Minutiae)</description>
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