Looking again at the Lupski-ome
Back in 2009, as a fresh-faced young editor, I attended the second Cold Spring Harbor Personal Genomes meeting. Nowadays medical and individual genomes are… Read more »
Latest posts by Rebecca Furlong (see all)
- Looking again at the Lupski-ome - 27th June 2013
- Gene patenting – a Genome Medicine twitter chat - 26th March 2013
- Genome Medicine announces a new series on microbes in health and disease - 14th December 2012
Gene patenting – a Genome Medicine twitter chat
The biotechnology company Myriad Genetics holds US and European patents on the breast cancer risk genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 and sells a diagnostic test based on… Read more »
Genome Medicine announces a new series on microbes in health and disease
In 2013 Genome Medicine will launch a new thematic series focusing on Microbes in health and disease. This series will highlight advances in genome-scale and… Read more »
Biomarkers: come on use the noise
Whether you call it precision medicine or personalized medicine or any one of a number of other terms, one of the major goals in medical research is to be able… Read more »
Beyond the genome and onto the web
Organising a conference feels a bit like the final stages of a PhD: spending months scouring the scientific literature, a gradual increase in stress levels,… Read more »
Going Beyond the Genome
I’m very pleased that the program for Beyond the Genome 2011 is now available on the conference website. This BioMed Central conference, organised… Read more »
New method for DNA breakpoint detection
Many diseases, including some cancers, are associated with specific chromosomal trans-locations, and a technique reported in Genome Medicine provides a new way… Read more »
Novel data integration framework
Anduril is an open-source computational framework for the combined analysis of molecular and clinical information developed by Sampsa Hautaniemi and colleagues… Read more »
Transcriptional regulation of miRNA-21
According to research recently published in Genome Medicine, a complex of transcription factors which includes p53, NF-kappa-B and STAT3 is responsible for… Read more »
Molecular classification for biliary atresia
A molecular signature for biliary atresia classifies samples into inflammation or fibrosis stages at diagnosis and will be valuable for personalized clinical… Read more »