Last night, 5AM Solutions' Chief Science Officer Will FitzHugh was among the honorees at SmartCEO magazine's Washington Executive Management Awards. If you haven't worked with him directly, you might know Will from this blog. Most recently, he was the author of the Map of Biomedicine series (stay tuned for an upcoming ebook...) and he has also written about newborn screening and big data.
Tags: Big Data, map of biomedicine, 5AM, newborn screening
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To date, 23 states and the District of Columbia have enacted legislation to make cannabis available to people with medical conditions that can be alleviated using the drug. Many people understand the laws in terms of offering compassionate pain relief and appetite stimulation for people suffering devastating illnesses like cancer and HIV/AIDS.
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On September 26, 1983, three weeks after the Soviet Union shot down a Korean Airlines passenger jet carrying a US congressman and raising Cold War tensions to new heights, Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov was quietly sitting at his desk in a bunker near Moscow when he received some bad news. Satellites had detected five ICBMs coming from the United States and they were headed his way.
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Last week, we did a post on curing cancer at the gene-level. But what about using genes to diagnose cancer? A feature story in the MIT Technology Review looks at research happening at Johns Hopkins University on that very possibility.
Tags: cancer, Genomics, 5AM, diagnostics, Cure
It's no secret that we human beings will go to great lengths to keep our families safe and healthy. In the late 1940s, Dr. Robert Guthrie, a cancer doctor, learned that his son, John had mental retardation. About a decade later, after switching his focus to finding the causes of mental retardation, Dr. Guthrie's niece was born with phenylketonuria (PKU), a genetic disorder that prevents the body from metabolizing the amino acid phenylalanine. Untreated, PKU can lead to mental retardation.
Tags: genetic testing, 5AM, newborn screening
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The clock shows a minute past noon. The stragglers of a steady stream of 5AMers finish sneaking in the conference room door and quickly take their seats. Someone dims the lights while another finishes pulling the shades. A hush comes over the room. “Everybody ready?” Nods answer. A mouse cursor clicks the play button. The frozen bespectacled figure on the projector screen comes to life. In a stern voice, he declares, “Integrated tests are a scam – a self-replicating virus that invades your projects! It threatens to destroy your codebase, to destroy your sanity, to destroy your life.” Another 5AM Tech Talk begins…
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It can seem like biobanking is a ‘cold black box’ process. Samples are processed, labeled stored and retrieved. For many involved in biobanking, it is not clear that processing and storing a biospecimen must be based on core scientific principals in order for the biospecimen to be useful for downstream applications. Biobanking also requires in infrastructure: equipment, biospecimen management systems that may include labels, label readers, and information systems for linking important data about the biospecimen with the actual specimen.
Tags: biobanking, 5AM, Advancing Biorepositories with Data Science
5AM Solutions is proud to be a sponsor at the 3rd Annual Disruptive Innovation to Advance Clinical Trials Event taking place September 19 and 20th at the The Fairmont Copley Plaza in Boston, MA. As part of our participation in this conference, we are excited to offer a 25% registration discount to those who would like to join us at the event. Use the code "5AM" at the end of the registration process to receive your discount.
Tags: clinical trials, Innovations, Craig Lipset, Boston, Conference, Advance, Pfizer, 5AM, The Conference Forum
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