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Research in prenatal diagnostics
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Gene patents may hamper innovations in patient care
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Gene patents are discoveries, not inventions and patenting discoveries may hamper future innovations in developing cost-effective patient care products and services. Scientific and technological innovations in molecular cloning, sequencing, PCR, bioinformatics, biochemical methods etc., have created innovative ways to identify genes and assign functions, without these inventions genes would have been a still unknown factor. Thus, gene patents are not true inventions; rather these are discoveries made possible through other technological and scientific inventions. Banning gene patents may offer incredible opportunities for innovations that can attract investments to create sustainable entrepreneurial establishments and scientific jobs, which may be significantly higher that gene patents alone can offer. In contrast, granting gene patents may lead to innovation bottlenecks that favor fewer inventions, restricted entrepreneurial initiatives, limited job growth, and non-competitive monopoly. Read the full blog: [link]... more »
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How to Identify Clinically Successful Biomarkers?
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The decisive goal of clinical biomarker discovery should be intended for developing high quality and low-cost disease detection/monitoring assays with high diagnostic accuracy. Innovative approaches are warranted for the discovery of clinical biomarkers, with faster bench to clinics timeline, to provide high quality and efficient patient care. At the same time, if we continue with the strategic and technological approaches that are currently being adopted for biomarker discovery and validation, most likely, it may take several years to find clinically viable biomarker/s for complex diseases like cancer or neurodegenerative or autoimmune or other human diseases. Therefore, an ideal clinical biomarker discovery platform, which can lead to the development of reliable and robust clinical diagnostics assays, should adopt an integrated approach that consists of comprehensive understanding of patients’ phenotypic, genetic and socio-environmental characteristics as well as biological and functional relevance of all biomolecules. In order to achieve these goals, two models for the discovery, selection and validation of clinically viable biomarkers are proposed in this scientific blog. Read the full blog: [link]... more »
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Invitation to join largest cytogenetics forum hosted by Google
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Hi. You are inited to join the largest cytogenetics discussion forum hosted by Google. Its is a friendly and helpful group to discuss blood/ bone marrow/solid tumour/prenatal/skins/POC cytogenetic methodologies. Trouble-shooting all cytogenetic problems such as harvesting problems, banding and cell culture.... more »
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Find prenatal resources/people - FREE
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It's about the most comprehensive people-search database in existance. Other firms may charge $$$ for these results - we supply them FREE! [link] Your reliable and free people search engine! Rgds
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Invitation to register!
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You are invited to add your profile at MDRegister Medical Directory - Registration is free. To add your profile go to : http//[link]
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