DNA TESTING VIETNAM-WAR DEAD

By | 2017-04-29T20:15:05+00:00 January 24th, 2013|Industry-news|

DNA testing identifies lost Vietnam-war dead By Al Jazeera's Wayne Hay The Vietnam war ended almost 40 years ago, but for many people, there has been no closure.  Thousands of Vietnamese are still searching for family members believed to have been killed during the conflict. Now DNA testing is helping some of them [...]

AMA RECOMMENDS STANDARDS

By | 2017-04-29T20:19:31+00:00 November 26th, 2012|Industry-news|

AMA Recommends Standards and Regulation The American Medical Association Interim Meeting acknowledged the patient benefits from recent advances made in the use of genomic-based technologies.  The AMA House of Delegates encouraged the development of standards to guide clinical use as well as best practices for the laboratories performing such tests. According to [...]

CLOUD-BASED DNA DATABASE

By | 2017-04-29T20:23:49+00:00 November 3rd, 2012|Industry-news|

SLC Company Creates Cloud-Based DNA Database for Local Police By Lindsay Whitehurst | The Salt Lake Tribune With a few quick clicks, Mark Szczepanski uploads the file from his desktop to a simple, red-and-white web page. A few seconds later, a bar graphic turns green. If Szczepanski was a police officer, he [...]

YOUR GENOME ON AN IPHONE

By | 2017-04-29T20:26:56+00:00 November 1st, 2012|Industry-news|

Your Genome's On An iPhone (trying to call home...) By Forbes, Jim Golden Ten years after the completion of the human genome project, competition between instrument makers and attempts to capture medical value from DNA sequence data  continue to make the news.  My life science and healthcare clients are continuing to look for innovative and practical [...]