I know I promised to write the second part of my résumé on Monday, but it’s been a crazy week, so here are the newest links and articles about personalized genetics. I apologize for the delay:

• The Top 12 Areas For Technology Innovation By 2025 (The Pondering Primate): Including personalized medicine and biomarkers for health.

• Steve Murphy, the gene sherpa, posted an article about BRCA positivity and an other one about The Mount Sinai School of Medicine:

Ahh, it feels good to tell you about data leading us up to the personalized medicine revolution. We must not take our eyes off the prize here. Party tricks with an algorithm not validated is NOT personalized medicine. But the results of this study once further replicated could be. Imagine reflex testing for RAD51 SNPs after you have the BRCA results. This could put the decision process into a less ambiguous path.

• DNA Video: deCODEme Buccal Swab DNA Collection Instructions (Eye on DNA):

• Within spitting distance (Economist.com):

One reason is that scientists do not yet know exactly how the genetic variations they can identify cause disease, so the information provided may prove inconclusive or even misleading. Another problem is to do with regulation. Keen to avoid the scrutiny of the Food and Drug Administration, which does not yet have a role in overseeing this fledgling industry, all the firms are careful to emphasise that they are not providing medical diagnostics services—though they are plainly providing information that customers will use to assess medical risks.

• Adventurer in Genome Science (Science - needs subscription): Presenting A Life Decoded, the new book of Craig Venter.

• Students’ Genomics Tool Will Lead To Better Medicine (MedicalNewsToday):

Students in Purdue University’s Department of Computer and Information Technology are working to develop an information-management tool that could give pharmacists instant access to patients’ genetic profile, making it possible to quickly determine the proper medicine dosage or if the drug cannot be tolerated by the patient.

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That’s all for now, check out Scienceroll’s collection of personalized genetics-related articles.