MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'helicos'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:39:50 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4159505&cid=t_176787_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2FVTV6k-WcgJY%2F Hired someone new and exciting? Promoted a rising star? Finally solved that hard-to-fill spot? Share the news with us and we’ll share with it others. That’s right. Send us your announcements and we’ll find a home for them. Don’t be shy. Everyone wants to know who is coming and going, especially with all the layoffs. Despite the downsizing, there is movement. Here are some of the latest changes. Recognize anyone? And here is our regular feature. Send us a photo and we will spotlight a different person each week. This time around, we note that Seyfarth Shaw added Steven Lipman as of counsel to its Boston office. He spent 10 years with the US Patent & Trademark Office, rising from patent examiner to senior attorney for the Assistant Commissioner for Patents. He also served with t... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4159505 Fri, 12 Nov 2010 12:55:12 +0100 4159505 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2871608&cid=t_176787_87_f&fid=38368&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FDisruptiveWomenInHealthCare%2F%7E3%2FHa0wmbppsG4%2F Well – sadly it’s been one year since I have posted a blog with Disruptive Women in Healthcare so I really need to update you all on the fascinating science occurring in the genomics community. Shortly after I wrote my last blog in October 2008, I attended a meeting at one of our country’s finest scientific institutions– Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories – where some of the world’s foremost scientific discoveries have occurred. At this inaugural meeting entitled “Personal Genomes”, scientists discussed the tremendous potential for understanding the genome and translating this knowledge into our quest for the personalization of healthcare – yet at this meeting one year ago, we were acknowledging that we had sequenced less than a handful of genomes, the task at hand enorm... Disruptive Women in Health Care blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2871608 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:05:33 +0100 2871608 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2134886&cid=t_176787_131_f&fid=35743&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthegenesherpa.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F01%2Fharsh-on-all-fronts.html I am often accused of being overly critical....whether it is of the Genetic Counselors, or the Physicians, or maybe the Scientists. I am definitely critical of DTC and even more so of the Medical Geneticists....In fact, I praise each of these groups at such a low rate, that many think I am looking to isolate myself from the entire field.....I am not. I just point out problems in our backyards so that we can clean them up.....I was told the other day by a senior Geneticist that what I had done to the Genetic Counselors had then questioning their roles. I had thrown academic genetic departments up in arms, trying to now figure out how to bill legally for what they are doing....Is that such a bad thing? To make people accountable for what they do.....to help motivate them to lobby extra hard ... Gene Sherpas: Personalized Medicine and You blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2134886 Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:45:00 +0100 2134886 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2087225&cid=t_176787_131_f&fid=35743&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthegenesherpa.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F01%2Fdid-you-hear-sanjay-general.html 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.... Gene Sherpas: Personalized Medicine and You blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2087225 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:35:00 +0100 2087225 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2074966&cid=t_176787_131_f&fid=35743&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthegenesherpa.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F12%2Fprediction-from-reader.html Ok, another sleepy day up in New Haven.......But not with me. I received some comments from my last post which were interesting and I want to share one with all of you....This year we will see some new genetic tests being developed and improved. We will also see 23andMe start to follow the business plan of DNA Direct.This is a pretty insightful comment. Will we see 23andMe go for the DNADirect business? If the data behind genome scans is currently weak, how can 23andMe monetize their model? Yes, we all know about the database thing....Isn't that what landed Celera in a heap of pain?Seriously, will 23andMe begin offering single gene tests? I am always confused by this one. DNADirect states that they do not mark up their tests, but how do they make money? I am curious about this one too. But... Gene Sherpas: Personalized Medicine and You blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2074966 Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:31:00 +0100 2074966 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2067894&cid=t_176787_131_f&fid=35743&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthegenesherpa.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F12%2Fsherpas-batting-average-for-2008.html I make some pretty outlandish predictions on this blog, including Francis Collins will become director of the NIH.....I am not afraid to be wrong. If I see a trend or a problem, I call it. What has gotten people's attention is that I tend to be right more often than I am wrong....at least for now.....I start out every year with some of these predictions, so I figure, why not look at the one's I made last year in 2008As I looked into my magic 8-ball/Complete Genomics Scanner. Which came true? Here are the predictions:1. Jim Watson will die.Well, only a few base pairs off on this one. The legend Victor McKusick did pass, God rest his soul.....Damn that 10x coverage.2. Mark Cuban would buy the rights to 23andMe's genome database.....I knew he would do something dastardly.....only it was not g... Gene Sherpas: Personalized Medicine and You blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2067894 Sat, 27 Dec 2008 19:51:00 +0100 2067894 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2053180&cid=t_176787_131_f&fid=35743&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthegenesherpa.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F12%2Fouch-cnv-with-lackluster-results.html All it takes is 2 seconds to step on some of my readership's toes and I feel it. Yesterday I posted on a 5% error rate for Whole Genome sequencing, I argued that even at 30x coverage it would not be ready for clinical diagnosis. I had CEOs of sequencing companies emailing me and VPs calling me. I even had pound for pound one of the best bloggers in the space say he was embarrassed for me.....Ouch!Why do I get pushback from people, when all I am doing is throwing some cold water on the party??? Get ready, because I am about to throw some more.....Remember yesterday when I said SNPs were one of 7 or 8 factors that will differentiate each of us??? Well, CNVs are another of those 7 or 8, 2 more include histone modification and methylation, telomerase activity and size would be another factor, ... Gene Sherpas: Personalized Medicine and You blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2053180 Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:06:00 +0100 2053180 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1352096&cid=t_176787_131_f&fid=34989&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FGeneticsHealth%2F%7E3%2F264565356%2F   Scientists from Helicos BioSciences, Ohio University, and Stanford University have published a paper in Science describing the first single-molecule sequencing of a whole genome. The researchers used a single-molecule sequencing, sequencing-by-synthesis method, developed by Helicos, to sequence the roughly 7,000-nucleotide genome of the M13 virus.  In the company’s version of single-molecule sequencing, an approach first proposed in the late 1980s, nucleic acid templates that are created by digesting genomic DNA are hybridized to primers that are covalently anchored in random positions on a proprietary glass cover slip in a flow cell. Then, a polymerase and labeled DNA bases are added, one nucleotide at a time. After they are incorporated into a complementary strand, these lab... Genetics and Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1352096 Sat, 05 Apr 2008 13:03:22 +0100 1352096