Personalized Genetics: Luxury? It shouldn’t be!

• Gene Map Becomes a Luxury Item (The New York Times): But it shouldn’t be…

On a cold day in January, Dan Stoicescu, a millionaire living in Switzerland, became the second person in the world to buy the full sequence of his own genetic code.

• deCODE CEO Predicts Downswing in Personal Genomics Market (Eye on DNA): Hsien-Hsien Lei tells you the biggest truth!

In any case, while 23andMe and Knome focus on the rich, famous, and elite, there is a great need to show the general public how genetic testing of all types is relevant to their everyday lives.

Here is an other video (I still have more) about personalized medicine: Gregory Stock at WorldFuture 2007

• Clinical Micro Sensors: Star Trek Meets the Human Genome By Michael Rogers (Caltech.edu): I had no idea these microsensors would have such a great future…

• Did you know about Dr. Eric Topol’s Genomic Medicine Video Blog on Medscape? If not, you should definitely follow him.

• Genomics companies, health risks, and personalized health interventions… can they really say much? (Yann Klimentidis)

• Google Finished With Cataloging the Internet Moving on to Your DNA (Docinthemachine): I’m a bit worried about Google’s power over genomic information. And I’m not the only one.

• Next Gen Sequencing Software (Finchtalk):

Once a lab is up and running with Next Gen technology they quickly face the data management problem. Basic file system technology and file servers allow groups to store their data in nested directory structures. After a few runs, however, people realize that it gets really hard to know what data go with which run or with which sample – the Excel file storing that information gets lost, or the README file didn’t written.

Now I think I removed my whole backlog so let’s get ready for some hardcore genetics in the next few days…