Monthly Archives: January 2006
The future of medicine?
In the past I have discussed the demise of the blockbuster model and a focus on targeted therapies driven by systems biology and pharmacogenomics. Bio-IT World has an article on a pharmacogenomics drug in phase III trials. The depression drug vilazodone, by way of Clinical Data, combines the drug with a diagnostic test. [...]
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DNA-wrapped CNTs as sensors
Biosingularity has a post on recent work in Science by scientists at the University of Illinois that shows how DNA-wrapped carbon nanotubes can be used as in vivo sensors. This is the kind of nanotechnology that, IMHO, should be the focus of government funding, as opposed to molecular manufacturing, which is likely to [...]
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FPGAs???
There is an article on Bio-ITWorld.com that talks about key life science IT trends in 2006. Among those listed are field-programmable gate arrays (or FPGAs). They talk about efforts at Cray and SGI in this area. That does nothing to add to my skepticism of FGPAs gaining widespread use. [...]
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Has bioinformatics stagnated?
The bioinformatics sector has gone through many ups and downs. While “pure” informatics companies are not quite as common as they used to be, information-based science is becoming an increasing part of the discovery process. However, over the years, I am not sure that the algorithms and methods that drive informatics have taken [...]
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Geology, algos and breast cancer