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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.

Biotech Trekker Archives: 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003-02

[01 January 2012, top]


Creator: Gerald Thurman [gdt@deru.com]
Created: 11 October 2002
Last Modified: Wednesday, 11-Jan-2012 05:45:41 MST