Tag Archives: individualized medicine

27 Genes Make Rubella Vaccine Less Effective

May 2nd, 2013 - 1:05 pm

Using advanced genetic sequencing technology and analysis, Mayo Clinic vaccine researchers have identified 27 genes that respond in very different ways to the standard rubella vaccine, making the vaccine  less effective for a portion of the population. Mayo Clinic vaccinologist … Continue reading →

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Celebrating 10th Anniversary of the Human Genome Project

April 16th, 2013 - 1:13 pm

This week marks the 10th anniversary of the completion of the Human Genome Project, a roughly 10-year, $3-billion, international effort to determine all 6 billion letters (3 billion base pairs) of human DNA. It was a major scientific achievement funded … Continue reading →

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Strategic Relationship on Genome Diagnostics

January 22nd, 2013 - 10:06 am

Mayo Clinic and Silicon Valley Biosystems (SV Bio) are announcing a strategic collaboration for whole genome diagnostics and interpretation at the Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine and Mayo Medical Laboratories. This strategic collaboration unites SV Bio’s proprietary genome interpretation solution … Continue reading →

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APA attendees get an update on the Mayo Clinic Bipolar Disorder Biobank

May 5th, 2012 - 5:00 pm

On Saturday May 5 at the American Psychiatric Association meeting, Mayo Clinic Health System psychiatrist Mohit Chauhan, M.D., gave an update on the Mayo Clinic Bipolar Disorder Biobank. Biobanks are a repository used to store human biological samples for use … Continue reading →

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Mayo Clinic Launches Whole Genome Breast Cancer Study

April 5th, 2012 - 8:48 am

The Breast Cancer Genome Guided Therapy Study (BEAUTY Project) will help physicians tailor chemotherapy to breast cancer patients based on their individual genomes and the genomes of their tumors. Mayo Clinic researchers will obtain three whole genome sequences: one from … Continue reading →

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