Microbiome

from Genomeweb

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Scientists meeting in Heidelberg, Germany, today announced the formation of the International Human Microbiome Consortium — a team of researchers from around the world interested in unraveling the relationship between the microbes associated with the human body and human health and disease.

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The IHMC is also inviting other countries to participate in the effort to collect the genomes of all microbes in and on the human body. In a conference call with reporters today, IHMC representatives noted that other countries, including Mexico and India, have already expressed interest in the project.

Teams from participating countries will coordinate their efforts to avoid duplicating their genome sequencing efforts. Some of the projects, such as the US National Institutes of Health’s Human Microbiome Project, are already underway, while others have just formed and are in the process of securing funding.

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Underground DNA testing

From Feb 24 2008 NYTimes:

 

The first, much-anticipated benefits of personalized medicine are being lost or diluted for many Americans who are too afraid that genetic information may be used against them to take advantage of its growing availability.

Abolishing ageing | How to live forever | Economist.com

 

Aubrey de Grey, an independent researcher working in Cambridge, England, believes ageing has seven components; deal with all seven, and you stop the process in its tracks. He refers to this approach as strategies for engineered negligible senescence (SENS).

The seven sisters that Dr de Grey wishes to slaughter with SENS are cell loss, apoptosis-resistance (the tendency of cells to refuse to die when they are supposed to), gene mutations in the cell nucleus, gene mutations in the mitochondria (the cell's power-packs), the accumulation of junk inside cells, the accumulation of junk outside cells and the accumulation of inappropriate chemical links in the material that supports cells.

Abolishing ageing | How to live forever | Economist.com

A New DNA Test Can ID a Suspect's Race, But Police Won't Touch It

A New DNA Test Can ID a Suspect's Race, But Police Won't Touch It

Knome whole-genome sequencing

Forget SNP-based sequencing, for $350,000 you can get the whole enchilada.  From a startup called Knome (pronounced "nome")  backed by a Harvard med school expert:

 

http://www.bio-itworld.com/newsitems/2007/nov/30-knome-launches-whole-genome-sequencing-service/

Framingham gene data open to all

 

From Genenome Web:

The National Institutes of Health is releasing massive amounts of genetic and clinical data from the Framingham Heart Study for free to qualified investigators.

NIH said the Framingham SHARe data set includes data on more than 9,300 individuals spanning three generations of more than 900 families and more than 550,000 SNPs.

Get the data here.

Genographic Project Releases First DNA Data

 

Results of the National Geographic Genographic Project Releases First DNA Data :: Bio-IT World

 

One cool thing is that they are releasing all the DNA data to the public.