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Genetics has a new profession
I’ve recently found an interesting site, the geneticcounselor.net that tries to describe this great profession via news, links and articles. Genetic counselors are health professionals who are trained...
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10 Tips: how to search for genetic conditions
Some months ago, I wrote about Juan Magdaraog who is blogging about his struggle with Pompe disease, a rare, but important genetic condition. He let me know about an essential problem: the diagnostic...
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Genetic Breakthroughs for Today
Three announcements that could have a big impact on genetic testing: New breast cancer genes discovery Scientists have developed a new technique to identify genes that increase the chance of women...
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Awesome Genetic Announcements
I’ve always had a dream: I enter a centre of genomics where I get my DNA sequenced in one week for cc. 1000$ then my geneticists tell me what kind of diseases I will definitely acquire through my life...
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PediDraw: A web-based tool for drawing a pedigree in genetic counseling
I’ve recently come across a great article on a new and useful webtool (hardcore genetics 2.0). An excerpt of the BioMed Central article: Drawing a pedigree is a prerequisite in genetic counseling....
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Genetic Testing: BlogMix and a funny video
I’ve been totally busy because of my summer practice at the department of pediatrics. I’ve seen many cases when genetic tests are needed (a strange haemophilia-related case, hereditary spherocytosis,...
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Web 2.0 and clinical genetics: in practice
Ramūnas Janavičius at cancer-genetics.com sent me some exceptional links to resources of clinical genetics. Why is it important? Once I wrote that: Look, we can’t expect physicians (from any kind of...
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The Best Description of Personalized Medicine
An excerpt from an article at Wired Science with the best description of personalized medicine ever (in red): After talking about the tricky task of turning genetic variations associated with...
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Gene Genie #19: Geneticalization
Many thanks to Ricardo Vidal for the logo! Gene Genie is the blog carnival of genes and gene-related diseases. Our plan is to cover the whole genome before 2082 (it means 14-15 genes every two weeks)....
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Newborn Screening for “Bubble Boy Disease”: Interview
On the 1st of January, the state of Wisconsin made a major step in the field of newborn screening. The collaboration of Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene, Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin and the...
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Global Awakening in Genetic Counseling
I’ve recently come across this article at Nature Precedings written by Janice Edwards, Jacquie Greenberg and Margaret Sahhar. Check out these excerpts: According to the National Society of Genetic...
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Personalized Genetics: Back in Business
It’s been a long time I haven’t written about the hypest field of medicine. So from now, I’ll get back to posting 2-4 times a week about individualized medicine. If you know nothing about it, check out...
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What you have to know about personalized genetics
Genes load the gun. Lifestyle pulls the trigger. By Dr. Elliot Joslin I’ve written at least a hundred times about personalized medicine so it’s the perfect time to come up with a short description of...
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Personalized Genetics: Are we ready?
As me and others have already stated for several times before, we are not. It was so good to read the opinion of Joel Burrill as I felt like we’re on the right way. Some excerpts from the interview...
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AccessDNA: Know Your Genetics
I’ve recently discovered AccessDNA on Twitter and I thought I should give it a try. On the main page, it says I should create my personalized report. Well, let’s do so. It asked me about the medical...
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Genetic Counselors: Unite!
I’ve come across a new site, The DNA Exchange, that seems to be a really promising project. We are a group of genetic counselors with an interest in public discussion of genetics-related issues. This...
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Whole-Genome Sequencing: Any Useful Data?
I met George Church at this year’s Scifoo event in San Francisco and we talked about how useful the data is that was obtained from whole genome sequencing methods. There are almost 50 people in the...
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Pathway Genomics: Let’s see my genes
As I’m doing PhD in clinical genomics and I’m really interested in the connection between internet and medicine, so I was very happy when Pathway Genomics, one of the newest direct-to-consumer genetic...
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Personalized Genomics News: From Virtuality to the Streets
DNA As Crystal Ball: Buyer Beware (Newsweek): A genome-wide association study identified a new gene variant associated with Alzheimer’s disease but it turned out clinically it’s not useful. “Adding...
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20 Predictions in Medicine And Healthcare for 2014: From DIY Biotech to...
Every January, I publish my predictions for the upcoming year regarding medicine and healthcare. Usually, the majority of these predictions turn out to be valid later on, although I prefer calling them...
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