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Amazon.com's Cloud Storing Lots of Genomic Data
I think books when I think Amazon.com, but right now Amazon.com's "cloud" is storing the "largest collection of human genetics available, 200 terabytes of genomic data."

BizJournals.com::Amazon places human genetic information on cloud

[30 March 2012, top]

AzBiotech.net Hits 9
The AzBiotech.net domain name has been renewed for another year.

AzBiotech.net was created on 3 April 2003 and it now expires on 3 April 2013.

[30 March 2012, top]

Whole Lotta Sequencing Going On
On 22 March 2012, San Diego-based Illumina announced that "Macrogen, Inc., a global sequencing services company based in Korea, purchased an additional ten Illumina HiSeq 2000 systems and two MiSeq systems, as well as HiSeq 2500 upgrades."

The press release contained the following quote by Professor Jeong-Sun Seo, Chairman of Macrogen. 

   "Our vision is to improve quality of life by enhancing understanding 
    of the human genome, and to be a global leader in providing genome 
    sequencing services, towards the ultimate goal of personalized medicine."

Hashtags: #Genomics #Sequencing #PersonaliedMedicine

Illumina.com::Macrogen, Inc. Increases Investment in Illumina.s Next-Generation Sequencing Technology

[22 March 2012, top]

Engineered Mice Lead To Sophisticated Rodents?
StemCells Inc. issued a press release that contained the following phrase from a company named genOway: "As the leader in the development of sophisticated and highly predictable genetically modified rodents..." Sophisticated rodents?

StemCellsInc.com::StemCells, Inc. Grants genOway Exclusive License to Gene Insertion Technology for Genetically Engineered Mice

[20 March 2012, top]

100 Broken Genes Per Human?
@nanofoo received this tweet from @LiveScience.

LiveScience.com::Humans Have About 100 Broken Genes Each

[02 March 2012, top]

Genetic Engineering Animation By a 9th Grader
I think this honors project deserves an A+. {IEET.org::Genetic Engineering Animation}

[25 February 2012, top]

Hello Dolly On 22 February 1997
I tweeted this on 2/22/2012... 
   #bioscience #cloning #HelloDolly 15 years ago today (2/22). 
   http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2011/02/0222dolly-sheep-clone-born/

[22 February 2012, top]

Age of Genomics: Genomes In a Day
Yesterday (02012.01.10) was quite a day for genomic stocks. Illumina (ILMN) previous close was $31.82. It opened down at $29.57 and fell to an intra-day low of $28.72, then it climbed to an intra-day high of $33.84 before closing at $33.01. Volume was almost 13 million compared to a trailing-3-month average of 2.8 million. The news? Life Technologies Corp. and Illumina Inc. unveiled rival genetic-sequencing machines that both say can map a person’s genome in a single day.

Life Technologies is not a GDT::Portfolio stocks, but Illumina is. Illumina.com::Illumina Introduces the HiSeq 2500

Forbes.com::Biotech Firms Battle Over Same Day Genomes

[11 January 2012, top]

Stem Cell Fraud: A 60 Minutes Investigation
On 8 January 2012, "60 Minutes" had a report on stem cells, but I did not watch it.

On 9 January 2012, I saw the following headline on Finance.Yahoo.com: "Stem Cell Therapy From Aastrom Biosciences and Cytori Therapeutics Looks to Gain Ground in 2012".

After reading the Finance.Yahoo.com posting, I watched CBSnews.com::Stem Cell Fraud: A 60 Minutes investigation}

"We clicked on Ecklund's Stem Tech Labs cart and - with no medical or scientific credentials - we bought 20 million umbilical cord stem cells for $5,000; shipped to America." -- 60 Minutes

[09 January 2012, top]

About the Biotech Trekker
The Biotech Trekker was started during October of 2002 and it entered 2012 with 409 postings. There are going to be a lot of postings about personalized medicine, genomics, smart drugs, stem cells and cloning over the span of this year.

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[01 January 2012, top]

Creator: Gerald Thurman [gdt@deru.com]
Created: 11 October 2002
Last Modified: Friday, 30-Mar-2012 07:55:13 MST