Global Immunological Observatory Pilot Project May Check for Many Antibodies At Once; Tip-off To How Many People Have Been Infected By Virus

Scientists Are Trying To Spot New Viruses Before They Cause Pandemics by Veronique Greenwood.  The New York Times.  February 17, 2021.   

Genomic Surveillance Receiving $200 Million In Tracking Variants and Complementing Testing Efforts

C.D.C Announces $200 Million 'Down Payment' To Track Virus Variants by Carl Zimmer And Noah Weiland.  The New York Times.  February 17, 2021.   

Molecular Changes Due To Exercises: 9,815 Changes During And After Exercise

A Single Session Of Exercise Alters 9,815 Molecules In Our Blood by Gretchen Reynolds.  The New York Times.  June 10, 2020.

New York Area Coronavirus Brought Mainly From Europe, Not Asia

Most New York Coronavirus Cases Came From Europe, Genomes Show by Carl Zimmer.  The New York Times.  April 9, 2020.

Undiagnosed Disease Network Specialize In Rare But Surprisingly Pervasive Diseases and Conditions

Medical Detectives:  The Last Hope For Families Coping With Rare Diseases by Lesley McClurg.  NPR.  December 17, 2018. 

Personalized Nutritional Genomics Does Not Match The Hype

"Personalized Nutrition" Isn't going To Solve Our Diet Problems by Julia Belluz.  Vox.  November 2, 2016. 

Beyond Gene Editing To Gene Synthesis

Scientists Talk Privately About Creating A Synthetic Human Genome by Andrew Pollack.  The New York Times.  May 13, 2016

Hints That Experiences Can Modify A Man's Sperm

Parents May Pass Down More than Just Genes, Study Suggests by Carl Zimmer.  The New York Times.  December 3, 2015. 

Historic Conference Addresses The Scientific And Societal Implications Of Genome Editing

What Can You Actually Do With Your Fancy Gene-Editing Technology by Ed Yong.  The Atlantic.  December 2, 2015. 

Sequencing All Protein-making Genes Made Available At Historic Low price

Craig Venter's Company In Deal For Whole Exome Tests At New Low Cost by Julie Steenhuysen.  Reuters.  September 22, 2015. 

Firm's Efforts To Become the "Google Of Personalized Health Care" Present Opportunities And Questions

23AndMe Gives Pfizer Access To Its Genome Database by David Lumb.  Fast Company.  January 13, 2015.

How Genomics Research Can Help Contain The Outbreak

The Ebola Wars by Richard Preston.  The New Yorker.  October 27, 2014.

Genomic Medicine May At "Inflection Point" Due to Lower-Cost Sequences And Clinical Successes

The Dawning Of The Age Of Genomic Medicine, Finally by Julie Steenhuysen.  Reuters.  March 6, 2014.

Genomics pioneer has started a called Human Longevity Inc.to "preserve health and fight off diseases including cancer, heart disease and Alzheimer's."

The Move Of Gene Sequencing Into General Medicine Takes Significant Step

Aiming To Push Genomics Forward In New Study by Andrew Pollack.  The New York Times.  January 13, 2013.

(1)  To lessen costs, Regeneron will sequence just the ___________, which contains the receipe for ___________.

(2)  The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs plans to collect DNA from _____________ veterans.

(3)  By sequencing the entire exomes or genomes of huge populations, the new projects are looking for __________________________.

(4)  Geisinger  will provide a key to linking genes to diseases by provied _______________

Big Data: The Numerical Imagination Applied Everywhere, Including Medicine

Sizing Up Big Data, Broadening Beyond The Internet by Steve Lohr.  The New York Times.  June 19, 2013.

The entire "Bits" section of today's Times is wonderfully helpful in providing a good feel for the possibilities and challenges of the world of big data.

(1)  The young data scientist profiled in the article has had an interesting career path progressing from ____________ to ___________ to his own firm __________ and finally to _____________.

(2)  His goal at Mount Sinai is "to turn medicine into the land of the _______."

(3)  Big Data as a term embraces ______, ____________ and ___________.

(4)  The McKinsey Global Institute needs _____________________ workers "deep analytical"
skills along with ___________ million more data-literate managers.

(5)  Big Data represents a potential revolution in ________________.

(6)  Essential is clever software to ____________________.

(7)  In the era of Big Data decisions will be based on ____________ rather than _____________.

(8)  How will the use of data impact "anchoring bias?"

(9)  What is the threat posed by incorrect correlation?

(10)  What are the components of the models of biology and health outcomes being developed at Mt Sinai?

Significant Resources, Ultimate Questions Accompany Cancer Gene Mapping Effort

Cancer Centers Racing To Map Patients Genes by Anemona Martocollis.  The New York Times.  April 21, 2013.

"Precision medicine" attained through massive computing power applied to genomic analysis of cancer and other health information is the aim of large and prestigious medical institutions.  Some are asking however "What's the real health benefit?"

First Guidelines For Incidental Findings In Genetic Tests

New Guidelines:  Labs Should Report Incidental Genetic Risk by Melissa Healy.  The Los Angles Times.  March 21, 2013.

Laboratories ordered by physicians to perform genomic sequencing for cancer or cardiac disease now have guidelines for reporting what they may incidentally discover.  The guidelines assert that "when a known genetic variation is clearly linked to heightened disease risk, when symptoms may not become evident for years, and when knowledge of that risk could prompt potentially life-saving steps, a genetic lab has a duty to report them to a physician."