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8 beaches in Quincy, 1 in Braintree closed
In the wake of the heavy rain on Wednesday, eight beaches in Quincy and one in Braintree have been closed to swimming because of bacteria contamination.
Avalon, Chickatabot, Heron, Delano (Back), Broady (Baker), Germantown Fire Station, Orchard and Nickerson beaches in Quincy and Smith Beach in Braintree are over the limit for bacteria.
Avalon Beach has 30 times the contamination considered safe. Broady, Germantown and Orchard are more then 18 times over the limit.
The bacteria levels at Smith Beach are twice as high as recommended for swimming.
The water is being retested and results will be available Friday afternoon.
All other beaches on the South Shore are open.
See water quality test results for each community and for Cape Cod, the South Coast and North Shore.
For more on Quincy beaches, call 617-376-1288, or visit tinyurl.com/ledger-quincy-beaches. For more on Wollaston Beach, call 617-626-4972.
Seventy-five salt water beaches on the South Shore are tested for enterococci, intestinal bacteria found in humans and animals. High levels of enterococci indicate the waters may also contain other disease-causing microbes that are present in sewage but are more difficult to detect. Bacterial colonies are filtered from three ounces of water and placed on a gel infused with nutrients and chemicals designed to promote growth. Left in an incubator, the single cells isolated on the filter grow explosively, forming colonies visible to the naked eye.After one day, the colonies are counted and if they exceed 104 colonies, the beach is closed to swimming.
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In a ceremony in Tucson, Ariz., on Aug. 7, Philip Deutschle, co-chair of the Science Department at Salinas High School and adjunct astronomy instructor at Hartnell College, was awarded the Thomas J.
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Who's Your Daddy? Mobile Truck Offers DNA Tests to Go
Aug 16, 2012 4:06pm
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In what may be a first anywhere, a Whos Your Daddy truck is cruising New York City selling DNA tests to people who want to confirm their childs paternity or even whether their parents are biologically related to them.
The brown and white RV, which is bedecked in eye catching signs advertising its services, is more than just a moving billboard, according to driver and operator Jared Rosenthal. The RV is set up to be a drug testing clinic and a DNA testing clinic, he told ABC News. Its essentially a mobile office so while were working people will walk up and ask questions and sometimes even take a test right on board.
Rosenthal, who works at mobile and clinic based testing company Health Street, came up with the idea for the truck himself.Necessity is the mother of invention, he said. Icouldntafford to rent an office, so I thought, we can convert the RV to a mobile office. People love the artworkit makes them smile and they share it with their friends on social media and get in touch with people who maybe do need DNA tests.
But its not all smiles aboard the Whos Your Daddy Truck, which often plays host to the full spectrum of human emotions. DNA really gets at a persons identity, it gets to the core of their identity, who your parents are, who your children are, how you define yourself ethnically and culturally. Rosenthal said The RV is a little more intimate than a clinic,clients tend to talk more they tell us things, we experience some of these life-changing moments with them.
Rosenthal brought up the story of one woman in her early 20s who came in for a test, only to find out that the people she believed to be her father and her three half-sisters was not related to her at all. In fact, the test revealed she was from an entirely different ethnic background. When she found out her father wasnt her biological father it totally rocked her identity to the core, he said.
He recounted meeting an 18-year-old woman from another state who had contacted the man she believed to be her father living in New York. A DNA test at the truck proved it was true, bringing a broken family back together. He began to form a relationship with this woman and it was great. Rosenthal said. They lost 18 years but they found each other.
Drama aside, Rosenthal insists that the truck is much more than a mobile Maury, providing a service that is very approachable, very accessible, and very available to the community.
The DNA, drug, and alcohol tests, which range in price from $79 to$599 are available at the truck or at local health street clinics. Although based in New York, the organization has partnered with out-of-state clinics and the US Consulate to provide testing in the event that one or more of the parties may live out of the state or country.
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DNA Data Storage
Researchers code a book into DNA, demonstrating the possibility of using the biological molecule for long-term data storage.
Coding messages into DNA was first demonstrated in the 1980s, but technology at the time would only allow one graphical symbol to be encoded. While that capacity has grown over the last 3 decades, the largest project to date, completed in 2010, managed just 7,920 bits of data, equating to approximately half a page of typed text. Using a novel technique, detailed today in Science, researchers at Harvard and Johns Hopkins Universities, have now encoded a 53,000-word book into DNA, including 11 JPG images and one JavaScript program.
Others have pointed out that DNA has certain advantages, said study co-author Sriram Kosuri. But no one had really taken it to a level that we were able to code really useful amounts of information.
Those advantages include the density of information that can be stored: an estimate of maximum capacity predicts that one gram of single-strand DNA could store as much as an exabyte (1018 bytes) of data. However, synthesizing and sequencing DNA carries a lot of inherent errors. Synthetic DNA typically has one incorrect nucleotide in every 70, and next gen sequencing techniques can make many mistakes when interpreting the stored data.
To overcome such errors, the team assigned the bases A and C as 0s, and G and T as 1s, creating a digital data stream. The manuscript and its accompanimentsa draft version of a book co-authored by one of the studys authors, George Church, called Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselveswas converted to HTML before being translated into the stream of 0s and 1s that could be written into the DNA sequence. The resulting stream was 5.27 megabits long, or 5.27 million 0s and 1s.
Previous methods have faced problems when trying to create whole streams in one long DNA sequence, a tricky and expensive process. The teams solution was to split the stream into smaller sections. They coded 96 bits per short nucleotide section, called an oligonucleotide, each of which contained a 19-bit address to order the information in the overall sequence. Each oligonucleotide was synthesized multiple times, so that upon reading, errors could be compared in each copy and a consensus reading could be reached.
Its a similar in the way that when you sequence the human genome, you dont sequence it once, you sequence it at 30 or 50 times coverage, and you just take consensus at each position, said Kosuri.
After synthesizing the sequence and attaching drops of DNA to microarray chips, the data was stored at 4 degrees Celsius for 3 months before being dissolved in water, amplified by PCR, and sequenced. By storing multiple copies, and sequencing each copy many times to reach consensus, the team managed to decode the entire 5.27-million-bit sequence with only 10 bit errors.
Theyve come up with a very clever way of managing error in the creation of the information, said synthetic biologist Steven Benner at the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution, who was not involved in the study. [The authors] provide some clever ways to get around the problems, allowing the reading of the minority molecules containing the desired information amid the larger numbers of molecules that do not.
While DNA storage is not re-writable, and not intended to replace your hard drive, the idea of long-term storage of large amounts of data in a very small space has advantages for archiving records and data. In contrast to a flat disc like a CD, with data only inscribed on the surface, a sheet of DNA has data stored throughout its thickness. The major challenge that remains, however, is the cost and efficiency of todays synthesizing and sequencing technologies, which currently make this system impractical for regular use. As sequencing costs continue to drop and technologies continue to advance, however, such DNA storage strategies may soon become much more practical.
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Reading and Writing a Book With DNA
16 August 2012Harvard University researchers converted a 53 000-word book into DNA and then read the DNA-encoded book using gene-sequencing technology, the researchers report this week in Science. The project is by far the largest demonstration of digital information storage in DNA and the densest consolidation of data in any medium, the authors say.
There is a clear need for improved long-term storage of massively large data, says George Church, a geneticist at Harvards Wyss Institute and one of the leaders of the research. There is data that we are throwing away or dont collect because we cant afford to store it, such as video surveillance of public spaces and large research projects, he says. Someday that wont be necessary. The question is, What will get us there first: electronic or molecular memory?
DNA offers advantages over electronic storage, but whether it will ever make sense practically or economically is unclear. DNA can store more digital information per cubic millimeter than flash memory or even cutting-edge experimental memories such as quantum holography. Data stored in DNA is also recoverable for millennia (consider the 7000-year-old DNA archaeologists have extracted from human remains). And given DNAs biological importance, we can safely assume its going to remain a readable standard for a long time. If you look at the size per bit of stored memory as DNA, its unlikely that well ever get better than that, says Joseph Jacobson, a synthetic biologist at MIT who was not involved in the project.
But making and reading DNA isnt yet practical. Synthesizing and sequencing DNA is expensive, although the cost for both of these technologies has been dropping at a rate of five- and twelvefold per year, respectively. Whats more, unlike electronic bits, most DNA data cannot be changed once its written. And with todays technology, information in DNA usually has to be accessed as a whole, not in parts. (There is no way to make random-access DNA memory.)
Church and his colleagues set out to demonstrate a simple way to densely store data in DNA. They converted an html draft of a book comprising 53 426 words, 11 JPG images, and one JavaScript program into a 5.27 megabit set of zeros and ones. Using software they wrote, zeros were assigned the letter A or C for the DNA bases adenine and cytosine, and ones were assigned the letter G or T for DNA bases guanine and thymine. A lowercase f from the book, for example, was represented in binary as 01100110 and encoded in DNA as ATGAATTC.
Synthesizing that string of bits would yield a stretch of DNA that was 5.27 million bases long. Such long stretches of DNA are particularly expensive to work with, so Church and his colleagues split the DNA sequence into short chunks that were each 96 bases long. Each chunk included a 19-bit bar code, or address, to show where that chunk belonged in the whole of the book. The DNA was synthesized, inkjet-printed on a glass DNA microchip, and then cleaved off and dried to form a 50-nanogram clump smaller than a speck of pollen.
To convert the DNA back to a book, Church and his colleagues read out the bases using commercially available sequencing technology. They then arranged the sequence, decoded it back to zeros and ones, and converted those back to an HTML book. The researchers were able to complete the project with errors in only 10 bits out of 5.27 millionon par with the raw error rate of other storage media, says Sriram Kosuri, a staff scientist at the Wyss Institute who also worked on the project.
The tome that got the honor of becoming the worlds first biological book is the forthcoming Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves. The book, coauthored by Church, will be published in more conventional forms this fall.
Similar approaches have been demonstrated before, but on a smaller scale. In 2001, Carter Bancroft and his colleagues at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine encoded in DNA the opening lines of Charles Dickenss A Tale of Two Cities. A 2010 project from the J. Craig Venter Institute encoded a 7920-bit watermark in a bacterium genome sequence. Churchs paper, however, takes us from a few bits to many megabits, says Jacobson. If you have a big enough quantitative advance, at some point theres a qualitative shift, and Id say thats the case here.
But another researcher who studies the intersection of biology and technology and asked to remain anonymous calls Churchs paper a silly vanity project with little value. Its like showing you could painstakingly use an abacus to solve a Hamiltonian path problem that would take the average computer a microsecond, he says. Other than maybe military intelligence, finding real-world applications for DNA storage technology under no conceivable set of circumstances is even remotely likely, he says.
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An Entire Book Written in DNA
DNA can be used to store information at a density about a million times greater than your hard drive, report researchers in Science today. George Church of Harvard Medical School and colleagues report that they have written an entire book in DNA, a feat that highlights the recent advances in DNA synthesis and sequencing.
The team encoded a draft HTML version of a book co-written by Church called Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves. In addition to the text, the biological bits included the information for modern formatting, images and Javascript, to show that DNA (like other digital media) can encode executable directives for digital machines, they write.
To do this, the authors converted the computational language of 0's and 1's into the language of DNA--the nucleotides typically represented by A's, T's G's and C's; the As and Cs took the place of 0's and Ts and Gs of 1's. They then used off-the-shelf DNA synthesizers to make 54,898 pieces of DNA, each 159 nucleotides long, to encode the book, which could then be decoded with DNA sequencing.
This is not the first time non-biological information has been stored in DNA, but Church's demonstration goes far beyond the amount of information stored in previous efforts. For example, in 2009, researchers encoded 1688 bits of text, music and imagery in DNA and in 2010, Craig Venter and colleagues encoded a watermarked, synthetic genome worth 7920 bits.
DNA synthesis and sequencing is still too slow and costly to be practical for most data storage, but the authors suggest DNAs long-lived nature could make it a suitable medium for archival storage.
Erik Winfree, who studies DNA-based computation at Caltech and was a 1999 TR35 winner, hopes the study will stimulate a serious discussion about what roles DNA can play in information science and technology.
The most remarkable thing about DNA is its information density, which is roughly one bit per cubic nanometer, he writes in an email.
Technology changes things, and many old ideas for DNA information storage and information processing deserve to be revisited now -- especially since DNA synthesis and sequencing technology will continue their remarkable advance.
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Book converted to DNA then 'read' to show off bio-digital storage
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Bioengineers have turned a book into DNA. The researchers also have shown they can decode the DNA to re-create the book, which includes 53,426 words, 11 images and one interactive Javascript app.
This may be the world's only modern biology book that costs thousands of dollars to read as well as write.
The new bio-digital book, coded from a Harvard University researcher's writings on synthetic biology, represents the largest amount ofdata ever written into DNA. Because of how costly and complex it is to read and write genetic material, DNA is still far from a practical storage drive. Yet as the price of synthesizing and sequencing DNA continues to drop, it may become an interesting way of storing data for the very long term, said Sriram Kosuri, a Harvard bioengineer who was one of the bio-digital book's creators.
"It brings a different perspective into the storage field," Kosuri told InnovationNewsDaily.
"At this point, it's very premature to hope that it would actually become something practical," said Stefano Lonardi, a computational biologist at the University of California, Riverside, who was not part of the Harvard effort. Nevertheless, Lonardi said, the work is a step toward DNA storage in the future. "These are things that people have to do first in order to get to something practical," he said.
Turning an e-book into DNATo turn text and pictures into a double helix, the book had to undergo several translations. First, Kosuri and his colleagues wrote an HTML file of a draft of the book that Harvard bioengineer George Church was writing at the time. HTML is the language Web developers use to write websites.
The biologists then turned the HTML into binary, the 1s and 0s that computers read. They decided to use the individual building blocks of DNA, commonly referred to by their one-letter initials, to represent the 1s and 0s. The building blocks A and C would represent 0s, they decided, while G and T would represent 1s. They then assembled strands of DNA representing their binary code. [10 Technologies Poised to Transform our World]
One of the greatest challenges of building DNA from scratch is that it's expensive and difficult to create long, unbroken strings of the stuff. So Kosuri and his teammates decided they would make very many smaller pieces instead, tagging each piece with an address so that someone trying to read the strands would be able to put them in the correct order. Such pieces are easy for the latest DNA-reading technology, callednext-generation sequencing, to process.
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DNA Sample Concentrator uses centrifugal force and vacuum.
August 16, 2012 - With built-in, removable diaphragm pump, CentriVap DNA Centrifugal Concentrator processes DNA samples and other minute quantities of solvents. Up to 60, 1.5 mL and 72, 0.5 mL micro centrifuge tubes may be processed simultaneously. There are 9 user-set programs accessible via buttons, and Quick-Start(TM) One Button Start Up function starts rotor, heater, timers, and vacuum pump. Along with Quick-Stop(TM) Rotor Brake, features include inlet and exhaust traps and optional CentriZap Strobe Light. Original Press release Labconco Corp. 8811 Prospect Ave. Kansas City, MO, 64132 2696 USA The CentriVap DNA Centrifugal Concentrator processes DNA samples and other minute quantities of solvents. Up to 60 each 1.5 ml and 72 each 0.5 ml micro centrifuge tubes may be processed at once.
With a built-in, removable diaphragm pump, the CentriVap DNA Concentrator has 9 user-set programs accessible with the touch of a few buttons. The Quick-Start(TM) One Button Start Up starts the rotor, heater, timers and vacuum pump. Three Quick-Start Buttons store one user-set program each. The Quick-Stop(TM) Rotor Brake stops vacuum within seconds to open the valve and bleed air into the chamber. Separate heat and run times allow the heat to be turned off sooner than the rotation to protect heat sensitive samples from excessive heat exposure. The Run Time turns off all functions after the set period of time has expired. Both an inlet trap to collect liquid coming off the samples and an exhaust trap to collect liquid coming off the pump exhaust are included. An optional CentriZap Strobe Light which utilizes a flashing light the same frequency as the rotation of the rotor allows remaining samples to be viewed in either sample tube or microtiter plate while it is spinning.
For more information on the CentriVap DNA Concentrator and the rest of the CentriVap line, contact Labconco at 800-732-0031, or download the PDF brochure at http://www.labconco.com.
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DNA Dynamics Announce SLAM Engine Overhaul
LEAMINGTON SPA, England, Aug. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --DNA Dynamics, Inc. (OTC Pink: DNAD), a global developer and publisher of mobile video games and applications, today announced that the latest iteration of it's SLAM Engine Technology, SLAM V7.0, is currently in development.
The SLAM Engine is DNA's powerful proprietary technology on which all of its internally developed games are built. SLAM 6.x has been in use over the last 18 months however the gaming world has moved on in that time. The SLAM Engine has always been focused on delivering games on multiple platforms over a short development cycle and SLAM 7.0 takes this ethos to the next level. Built around the popular programing language of C# and the Mono Framework SLAM 7.0 will see DNA's next batch of games move on from both technical and time to market standpoints
Ed Blincoe, CEO of DNA Dynamics Inc., commented, "Redeveloping the SLAM Engine has been a major undertaking for the team however it was critical we keep ahead of the pack in terms of our development processes and time to market. Our next game is currently being built upon the new technology base and we've already seen a marked improvement in game performance and build speed, I'm excited about what we can achieve using the new SLAM Engine and the games it will produce." Blincoe continued, "By utilizing our own technology we can substantially reduces our development costs making us a company to watch into 2013."
The DNA Studios Team is currently transitioning over to the new technology base and expects to have its first game to market before the end of the year.
About DNA Dynamics, Inc.Headquartered in Leamington Spa in the United Kingdom, DNA Dynamics is a worldwide developer and publisher of graphically rich, interactive entertainment currently delivered on iOS, Android, Apple Mac and PC. Through its operating subsidiaries, the Company has created, acquired or licensed a portfolio of highly recognizable or emerging brands that broadly appeal to its consumer demographics, ranging from children to adults and casual gamers to serious enthusiasts. For more information, please go to http://www.dnadynamics.net.You can also follow the Company on Facebook and Twitter.
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Spoiler Chat: Scoop on Grey's Anatomy, Smash, Teen Wolf, Private Practice and More!
Tamie in St. Louis: I can't take not knowing if they are killing Eric Dane off Grey's! Any idea what the plan is? Well, we're not going to sugarcoat it, but when we spoke to Chandra Wilson, it didn't sound good. Mostly because she was talking about taking care of him and "stroking" him (we assume his face) in the beginning of the season. "I really appreciate the way that we have taken care of him in the beginning of the season," Wilson tells us. "I think it's something that Grey's fans will really appreciate. We get to stroke him a lot in the beginning of our season." However, she assured us that someone who is gone from the show will not be forgotten. "It doesn't matter if the characters aren't there anymore. We just talk about him all the time!" she laughs. Let's hope they aren't using past tense when talking about McSteamy.
Ben in Chicago: I've been missing your Smash coverage! Cannot wait until it returns, so can I have a bit of scoop for now to hold me over until 2013? Doesn't the second season of Smash seem so far away? It's unbearableuntil we wiggled our way onto the set and got some awesome scoop! More on that later, but for now, here are some tidbits we can reveal: a mosh pit, an unexpected relationship between Jennifer Hudson's character and Ivy, Tom large and in charge and finallyKaren is in looove!
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Beth: I'm so bummed that Tim Daly won't be back on Private Practice. Will his exit be addressed on the show? We're sad to see him go, too, and yes, his absence will definitely be felt on the show, especially by Violet. "My character at the beginning of the season, it's all about loss," Amy Brenneman tells us. "Tim is not coming back, and that's pretty much what I'm dealing with." As for Daly's exit, Brenneman says, "It's like life. People come, and then they go, and then [they] write to it. It gets to be like real living."
Cece: I'm so sick of the Liam-Silver-Navid love triangle on 90210! Is there any hope for us Liam and Annie fans? There's always hope! At least, that's what Matt Lanter says of the fan-favorite couple's future. "I didn't know there were so many Liam and Annie fans! Every time Liam tries to get together with some other girl, all I hear about is Liam and Annie on my Twitter and stuff," he says. "I think there is always hope for it. We'll see how long the series runs. Maybe they'll get back together in the end of the series. We got to wait for it!" We advise against holding your breath, people, it may be a while!
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Psychics Universe, a New Online Spirituality Network, Announces Why 12/21/12 Will Not Be the End of the World
Psychics Universe regularly discusses issues of personal wellbeing and spirituality. In this new discussion, they address the questions of “Will 12/12/2012 be the end of the world?”Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) August 16, 2012 Due to the recent buzz in internet chat rooms and message forums about Mayan prophecies and ancient calendars, PsychicsUniverse, a new online spirituality network, publicly ...
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NASA goes green: NASA selects green propellant technology demonstration mission
NASA has selected a team led by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation of Boulder, Colo., for a technology demonstration of a high performance "green" propellant alternative to the highly toxic fuel hydrazine. With this award, NASA opens a new era of innovative and non-toxic green fuels that are less harmful to our environment, have fewer operational hazards, and decrease the complexity and cost of launch processing.
Today's use of hydrazine fuel for rockets, satellites and spacecraft is pervasive. Hydrazine is an efficient propellant and can be stored for long periods of time, but it also is highly corrosive and toxic. NASA is seeking new, non-toxic high performance green propellants that could be safely and widely used by rocketeers, ranging from government to industry and academia. Green propellants include liquid, solid, mono- propellant, which use one fuel source, or bi-propellants, which use two, and hybrids that offer safer handling conditions and lower environmental impact than current fuels.
"High performance green propellant has the potential to revolutionize how we travel to, from and in space," said Michael Gazarik, director of NASA's Space Technology Program at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "An effective green rocket fuel would dramatically reduce the cost and time for preparing and launching space missions while decreasing pollution and harm to our environment."
Following a solicitation and peer-review selection process, NASA chose the Green Propellant Infusion Mission proposal and a team lead by Ball and co-investigators from the Aerojet Corporation in Redmond, Washington, the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory at the Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center at the Kirkland Air Force Base in New Mexico, NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland and NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the new mission.
NASA's Green Propellant Infusion Mission is expected to be developed and flown in approximately three years. The Space Technology Program will provide $45 million for the mission, with some additional cost-sharing by mission co-investigators.
This demonstration will bridge the gap between technology development and use of green propellant. The team will develop and fly a high performance green propellant, demonstrating and characterizing in space the functionality of the integrated propulsion system. Such a demonstration will provide the aerospace community with a new system-level capability for future missions.
Maturing a space technology, such as a revolutionary green propellant, to mission readiness through relevant environment testing and demonstration is a significant challenge from a cost, schedule and risk perspective. NASA's Technology Demonstration Missions Program performs this function, bridging the gap between laboratory confirmation of a technology and its inital use on an operational mission.
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Can Markets Work in Medicine?
One of the sharpest dividing lines between conservatives and liberals is whether or not markets can work in medicine. Progressives admit to being “deeply suspicious of the claim that a health care system dominated by powerful vested interests and mystifying in its complexity can be tamed by consumers who are [...]
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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/vxwrkb/personalized_medic) has announced the addition of the "Personalized Medicine - A Global Market Overview" report to their offering.
This report review, analyze and projects the personalized medicine market for global and the regional markets including the United States, Europe and Rest of World. The market numbers illustrated in this report only represent the market exclusively for the product segments and technologies enunciated above. The market, in this report, does not include the associated hardware equipment or software technologies that are used to manage patient data. The study includes recent and current trends related to technology and the market along with the key industry developments.
The market for personalized medicine product types analyzed in this study includes Targeted Biologics, Proteomics & Genomics, Genetically Modified (GM) Products, Wellness & Disease Management, Other Molecular Diagnostics and Self/Other Diagnostics. The report also includes the market analysis for application technologies of personalized medicine - Pharmacogenomics, Point-of-Care Testing, Stem Cell Therapy, Pharmacoproteomics, Pharmacogenetics and Other Technologies. The report analyses the global market in terms of USD Million.
This 350 page global market report includes 43 charts (includes a data table and graphical representation for each chart), supported with meaningful and easy to understand graphical presentation, of the market. The statistical tables represent the data for the global market by geographic region, product type and application technology.
The report covers the brief business profiles of 56 key global players and 77 major players across the United States - 45; Europe - 24; and Rest of World - 8.
The report also provides the listing of the companies engaged in research and development, manufacturing, processing, supplies and distribution of personalized. Also enlisting the academic institutions engages in personalized medicine, the global list covers the addresses, contact numbers and the website addresses of 395 companies.
For more information, including table of contents and list of companies mentioned, please visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/vxwrkb/personalized_medic
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Modernizing Medicine Launches EMA Dermatology With Visualdx at the American Academy of Dermatology's 2012 Summer …
BOCA RATON, FL--(Marketwire -08/16/12)- Modernizing Medicine, the creator of the Electronic Medical Assistant (EMA), a cloud-based specialty-specific EMR application, announced today the availability of EMA Dermatology with Logical Images' VisualDx, a comprehensive digital medical image library, proving the company's dedication to bringing dermatologists the most powerful EMR on the market.
Modernizing Medicine's user-friendly EMA features algorithms that help to improve medical decision making and information tracking, simplify billing and speed up medical documentation, saving physicians and their staff valuable time. In two years, Modernizing Medicine has captured over 10% of the dermatology market and is currently used by over 550 specialty-specific healthcare practices across the country.
Logical Images' VisualDx is a massively hyperlinked visual thesaurus of over 1,200 dermatology conditions represented by over 25,000 high-resolution medical images. VisualDx captures disease variation by age, body location, skin type, immune status, disease stage, disease severity, lesion type and more, showing how each might look at different stages and in people of different ages and ethnicities. VisualDx is especially helpful in identifying uncommon conditions.
The addition of VisualDx to Modernizing Medicine's powerful EMA Dermatology product will assist dermatologists further at point of diagnosis and promote patient engagement by sharing real medical images patients can relate to. Modernizing Medicine intends to make VisualDx available to all new and existing EMA Dermatology clients.
"I commend Modernizing Medicine for the EMA-VisualDx implementation. Now, in seconds dermatologists can access the best medical images in the world which will help in educating patients right in the exam room," said Art Papier, CEO of Logical Images. "VisualDx on the iPad is a great example of a novel technology that helps to create a bond between physician and patient. Patients have a hard time understanding our spoken medical language, but they easily understand pictures. Images are everything in dermatology, and EMA is now delivering the best medical image collection through VisualDx in seconds. It speeds practice and helps patients. That is what busy physicians want."
"We're confident that the addition of Local Images' VisualDx to EMA Dermatology will help dermatologists make more accurate and complete diagnoses and treatment plans for their patients and will save them and their staff even more time than EMA already does," says Modernizing Medicine co-founder and dermatologist Michael Sherling. "The addition demonstrates our dedication to the dermatology market and the development of the most valuable technology for specialty-specific practices."
EMA Dermatology demos complete with the new VisualDx feature will be available at the Modernizing Medicine booth, #809, during the Summer AAD meeting in Boston this week. Modernizing Medicine will also host a cocktail reception for its customers and press on August 17th, at Top of the Hub, which will feature a presentation by coding, documentation and reimbursement expert, Inga Ellzey. If you'd like to attend, please reach out to Chelsea Boudreaux, at chelsea.boudreaux@atomicpr.com.
About Modernizing MedicineModernizing Medicine is delivering the next generation of electronic medical records (EMR) technology for the healthcare industry. Our product, Electronic Medical Assistant (EMA), is a cloud-based specialty-specific EMR with a tremendous amount of medical content already built-in that saves physicians time. Available as a native iPad application or from any web-enabled Mac or PC, EMA adapts to each provider's unique style of practice and is designed to interface with over 400 different practice management systems. Today, Modernizing Medicine provides specialty-specific offerings for the dermatology, ophthalmology, and optometry markets, and to more than 550 practices across the country.
About Logical ImagesBased in Rochester, NY, Logical Images develops visual health care tools to elevate diagnostic accuracy, enhance medical education, and heighten patient knowledge. Selected by Modern Healthcare Magazine as one of the "Best Places to Work in Healthcare" in 2009, Logical Images is a company of digital imaging experts, leaders in computer-based design and knowledge management, skilled image archivists, and practicing physicians. The company's products include VisualDx, a visual clinical decision support system for diagnostic accuracy, and Skinsight, an online consumer skin health and wellness resource. Logical Images has developed the most comprehensive digital medical image library including 60,000 images representing all ages and skin types. This extensive collection is the foundation for both the VisualDx professional tool and the Skinsight consumer tool -- designed to speed disease recognition for faster, more accurate decision making and patient understanding.
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Personalized Medicine – A Global Market Overview
NEW YORK, Aug. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue:
`Personalized Medicine can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. For some, it may relate to doctors having knowledge about their case history and the treatment received, which is a morale boosting factor, since everybody wants caregivers who can comprehend an individual's problems. The day is not very far when this level of personal or individual understanding between a patient and a doctor would be much deeper than hitherto anticipated. The coming decade is expected to witness an increase in the use of companion diagnostics and personalized medicines, with pricing incentives and efficiency improvement propelling the market. Current market leaders with diagnostic divisions focusing on biomarker identification would be at an advantage.
This report review, analyze and projects the personalized medicine market for global and the regional markets including the United States, Europe and Rest of World. The market numbers illustrated in this report only represent the market exclusively for the product segments and technologies enunciated above. The market, in this report, does not include the associated hardware equipment or software technologies that are used to manage patient data. The study includes recent and current trends related to technology and the market along with the key industry developments.
The market for personalized medicine product types analyzed in this study includes Targeted Biologics, Proteomics & Genomics, Genetically Modified (GM) Products, Wellness & Disease Management, Other Molecular Diagnostics and Self/Other Diagnostics. The report also includes the market analysis for application technologies of personalized medicine Pharmacogenomics, Point-of-Care Testing, Stem Cell Therapy, Pharmacoproteomics, Pharmacogenetics and Other Technologies. The report analyses the global market in terms of USD Million.
This 350 page global market report includes 43 charts (includes a data table and graphical representation for each chart), supported with meaningful and easy to understand graphical presentation, of the market. The statistical tables represent the data for the global market by geographic region, product type and application technology. The report covers the brief business profiles of 56 key global players and 77 major players across the United States 45; Europe 24; and Rest of World 8. The report also provides the listing of the companies engaged in research and development, manufacturing, processing, supplies and distribution of personalized. Also enlisting the academic institutions engages in personalized medicine, the global list covers the addresses, contact numbers and the website addresses of 395 companies.
PART A: GLOBAL MARKET PERSPECTIVE
1. INTRODUCTION1.1 Product Outline1.1.1 Personalized Medicine's Influence on Large Scale Studies1.1.2 Gazing into the Crystal Ball: What the Future Holds for Personalized Medicine1.1.3 Ramifications of Personalized Medicine for Healthcare Systems1.1.3.1 Pharmaceutical Industry1.1.3.2 Diagnostics Industry1.1.3.3 Insurers1.1.3.4 Physicians1.1.3.5 Government Agencies1.1.3.6 Patients1.1.4 Analysis of Personalized Medicine by Segment1.1.4.1 Targeted Biologics1.1.4.1.1 Overview1.1.4.1.2 Targeted Biologics for Breast Cancer: An Illustration1.1.4.2 Proteomics & Genomics1.1.4.2.1 Proteomics1.1.4.2.1.1 A Complex Problem1.1.4.2.1.2 Post-Translational Modifications1.1.4.2.1.3 Phosphorylation1.1.4.2.1.4 Ubiquitination1.1.4.2.1.5 Other Modifications1.1.4.2.2 Genomics1.1.4.2.2.1 Pharmacogenomics1.1.4.3 Genetically Modified (GM) Products1.1.4.3.1 The Genetic Engineering Process1.1.4.3.1.1 Applications of Genetic Engineering1.1.4.4 Wellness & Disease Management1.1.4.4.1 Wellness Defined1.1.4.4.2 Disease Management Defined1.1.4.5 Molecular Diagnostic Technologies1.1.4.5.1 DNA Sequencing1.1.4.5.2 Biochips and Microarrays1.1.4.5.3 Cytogenetics1.1.4.5.3.1 Personalized Medicine Based on Molecular Cytogenetics1.1.4.5.3.2 Personalized Medicine Based on Cytomics1.1.4.5.4 Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) Genotyping1.1.4.5.4.1 Applications of SNPs Pertinent to Personalized Medicine1.1.4.5.5 Haplotyping1.1.4.5.6 Application of Proteomics In Molecular Diagnosis1.1.4.5.7 Gene Expression Profiling1.1.4.5.8 Personalized Medicine and Molecular Imaging1.1.4.5.9 Diagnostics Based On Glycomics1.1.4.5.10 Combining Diagnostics and Therapeutics1.1.4.5.11 Point-Of-Care (POC) Diagnosis1.1.4.5.12 Genetic Testing For Disease Predisposition1.1.5 Analysis of Personalized Medicine by Technology1.1.5.1 Pharmacogenomics1.1.5.1.1 Drug Metabolism1.1.5.1.2 Applications1.1.5.2 Point-of-Care Testing1.1.5.2.1 Tests that are Most Apt for Specific Scenarios1.1.5.2.2 Advantages1.1.5.3 Stem Cell Therapy1.1.5.3.1 Treatment with Stem Cells1.1.5.3.2 Current Therapies1.1.5.3.3 Future Treatments1.1.5.4 Pharmacoproteomics1.1.5.5 Pharmacogenetics1.1.5.5.1 Prediction of Drug-Drug Interactions1.1.5.5.2 Integration of Pharmacogenetics with the Healthcare System1.1.5.5.3 Pharmacogenetic Tests1.1.5.6 Other Personalized Medicine Technologies1.1.5.6.1 Biochips1.1.5.6.2 Genetic Screening1.1.5.6.3 Metabolomics1.1.5.6.4 Molecular Diagnostics1.1.5.6.5 Pharmacodynamics1.1.5.6.6 Pharmacokinetics1.1.5.6.7 SNP Genotyping1.1.6 The Rationale Behind Personalized Medicine: "One Size no Longer Fits All"1.1.7 The Human Genome: What is It?
2. KEY MARKET TRENDS
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Southborough primate lab to make changes
Harvard Medical School says it will start making changes at the primate research center that has come under national scrutiny following the death and injury of several monkeys in the past year and a half.
The school said it is following the recommendations of an independent panel of scientists who conducted a five-month review of the schools primate research center and this week released a two-page summary of their report.
The document recommends adding several new leadership positions and advises better oversight and more open communication between the school and the research center, which has played a key role in cancer, AIDS and other medical research.
Southboroughs New England Primate Research Center has come under scrutiny from the U. S. Department of Agriculture after several incidents that resulted in research monkey injuries and deaths.
The USDA investigation of the facility is ongoing, spokesman David Sacks said Wednesday, for the incidents of neglect over the last 18 months. The lab faces up to $10,000 in fines for each violation of the Animal Welfare Act, he said.
But an animal rights advocate who has been following the saga of the labs missteps said Wednesday the center isn't doing enough to rectify the situation and should be more transparent.
"It does not sound as though theyre taking the steps necessary to prevent additional deaths from happening in the future," said Michael Budkie, executive director of Stop Animal Exploitation Now!
The summary said the seven-member panel set out to find major themes and processes that could be improved, not to identify every risk identified in previous reports.
"I think they should give a tour of this facility to myself and news media to give us the opportunity to see whats going on inside this facility," Budkie said.
Harvard Medical School Wednesday did not release the full report "out of sensitivity to the privacy of our operations."
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Cooper Medical School of Rowan University sends new students exploring through Camden
To acquaint Cooper Medical School of Rowan Universitys first 50 students with their new neighborhood, the charter class was loosed upon Camden on Wednesday with a series of clues in search of specific landmarks the good, the bad and the ugly.
For new students Susan Talamini and Rebecca Lee, the first and most crucial item they needed to locate was their car in the parking garage across the street from the new school.
But, like the proverbs will tell you, its about the journey, not the destination.
The women realized that sooner than later.
Talamini, 28, and Lee, 26, are both from out of town.
Complete strangers to each other before orientation at the school this week, Talamini and Lee had to learn to work together quickly as a team.
Talamini was born in Essex County in New Jersey, and Lee is from Cleveland, Ohio.
Both women spent a good amount of their lives in New York and now live in Princeton and Haddonfield.
Something else the pair has in common?
They were two of 50 students chosen out of 2,900 applicants to be the first to attend Cooper Medical School.
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Cooper Medical School of Rowan University sends new students exploring through Camden