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The Custom Drug Future
Drugs can now be designed to lock into them (proteins), shutting them down or turning them on, an approach called rational drug design that is far more targeted than trial and error used to make virtually every drug in history. And this is just the beginning. One day, when every person's genome has been sequenced, drugs will be tailored not just to specific disease, but to specific people.
Tagged: / Wired Magazine By: David Duncan
Lilly's R&D Prescription
Drug companies, called “seekers,” go to the site and put up a kind of wanted poster that describes the target they’re trying to nail. Bounty-hunter scientists, called “solvers,” sign a confidentiality agreement and then go to a project room, which contains data and product specifications related to the problem. Like the bounty hunters of old, solvers take on much of the risk in hopes that they will be able to earn a reward.
Tagged: / Fast Company By: Bill Breen
The Medical Journal Meets the Internet
Medical journal publishing over the Internet affords major time and cost savings and conserves resources. The time savings allow more rapid incorporation of major advances into the practice of medicine. Electronic publishing also makes it feasible to publish negative studies which will enable more accurate appraisals of new drugs and new techniques.
Tagged: / First Monday By Charles Curran
The Shattered Self: The End of Natural Evolution
Our notions of self, life and death, intelligence, and sexuality are very primitive and on the verge of being profoundly altered on the scale of human history. It is this shattering - what causes it and its meaning - that forms the central thread of this book. This shattering is brought about by scientific progress in biology, computer science, and resulting technologies, such as biotechnology and bioinformatics.
Tagged: / The Shattered Self By Pierre Baldi
Day-to-Day Monitoring for e-Health
Providing people with information about their own physical state has been used for a long time under the general term "bio-feedback." In the current project, we are trying to expand the general ideas of bio-feedback to include the monitoring of day-to-day health information such as diets, exercise, and stress. We are particularly interested in compliance, and in health.
Tagged: / MIT Media Laboratory
Implanted Chips That Deliver Your Drugs
Every drug has a desirable therapeutic range. Above it, the drug can be toxic. Below, the medication can be ineffective.” “His latest brainchild combines silicon chips with advanced medical-device technology to make drug delivery more intelligent. "This is a paradigm shift," he says. "We're putting pharmacies on a chip.
Tagged: / Business Week By: Jane Black
Metal and Flesh - The Evolution of Man
This is a collection of writings on the emergence of cultural biology. It consists of three sections in the form of loosely connected thoughts revolving around two central themes: how technology transforms our perception of the world and how culture is taking a life of its own, what Dyens calls 'cultural biology'.
Tagged: / Metal and Flesh By Ollivier Dyens
Nano-scale Bar Codes
Light-sensitive metals are embedded into materials and chemicals instead of printing lines on their surfaces like a typical bar code. Its first target will likely be chips containing DNA information used in testing gene function. Industrial use is also promising--as additives, nano-bar codes could serve as identification tags in raw materials for inventory tracking and theft control.
Tagged: / Nanoplex Technologies
Thin! Tan! Hotter Than Hell!
Yesterday's drugs were about need; today's are about desire. The unlocked human genome opens even our innermost passions to scrutiny and tinkering, blazing the way to an entirely new class of pharmaceutical. For better or worse, Americans who pay for quick-fix drugs will want beauty, happiness, and the illusion of wealth.
Tagged: / Wired Magazine By: Wil McCarthy
Genomic Cartography
Network usage patterns and computational processes are being explored through representations that focus on extracting the qualitative features from these very large data sets. The current focus of this work is in genomics and bioinformatics.
Tagged: / MIT Media Laboratory
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