The new position could have a huge impact on medicine and on the biotechnology industry. The new position was declared in a friend-of-the-court brief filed by the Department of Justice in a case involving two human genes linked to breast and ovarian cancer. “We acknowledge that this conclusion is contrary to the longstanding practice of the Patent and Trademark Office, as well as the practice of the National Institutes of Health and other government agencies that have in the past sought and obtained patents for isolated genomic DNA,” the brief said.
Read article in the New York Times (USA)
Comment from Dr Rath Foundation: The U.S. federal government should be applauded for taking this important position against the multi-trillion dollar “business with disease.” The human genome − the blueprint of life and the biological basis of our existence − belongs to all mankind. Efforts to own this genetic code with the goal to re-build, sell and manipulate the human body or parts of it for corporate gain, should therefore be prohibited.
Showing posts with label DNA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DNA. Show all posts
Saturday, 6 November 2010
U.S. Government Says Human and Other Genes Should Not Be Eligible for Patents
Thursday, 21 June 2007
DNA pioneer predicts future for gene-screening
Gene-screening will be norm in 10 years, says DNA pioneer - Guardian
Extract:
"Personal DNA sequences will become a routine tool in the diagnosis of diseases within 10 years, according to the father of genetics, James Watson. He said that, as the costs of the sequencing technology tumble, doctors will be able to use the information to plan more effective treatments for conditions including mental illness, cancer, obesity and diabetes.
Professor Watson, who discovered the structure of DNA in 1953 with his Cambridge University colleague Francis Crick, was speaking yesterday at the launch of the Wellcome Collection, a new national museum based in London that will examine the scientific and artistic connections between people and biomedicine.
Using current technology sequencing a single person's DNA takes 20 technicians around nine months. "In five years the hope is that you could reduce that to a week with just two or three people," said Michael Jones, head of the genomics core lab at Imperial College London. "New technologies are trying to eliminate the technicians you need. The idea is you can take someone's DNA and plug it into a machine and the data will come out.""
Well, as far as "cancer, obesity and diabetes" are concerned, the main contributory cause is fluid retention/sodium retention/salt sensitivity, which in turn is caused by misinformation from the medical profession about the causes and treatment of obesity, coupled with their reckless prescribing, often in high dose, of drugs like steroids, HRT and certain antidepressants and other drugs which cause sodium and water retention, and inadequate or non-existent monitoring of patients taking the drugs. - The high-tech stuff detailed in the article would come very low indeed in any list of desirable expenditure I were to compile...
See http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/steroids.html and http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/conditions.html
Lose weight by eating less salt! - Go on! - Try it! - You will feel so much better!
See my website http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/
Read my Mensa article on Obesity and the Salt Connection
(The site does not sell anything and has no banners or sponsors or adverts - just helpful information.)
Extract:
"Personal DNA sequences will become a routine tool in the diagnosis of diseases within 10 years, according to the father of genetics, James Watson. He said that, as the costs of the sequencing technology tumble, doctors will be able to use the information to plan more effective treatments for conditions including mental illness, cancer, obesity and diabetes.
Professor Watson, who discovered the structure of DNA in 1953 with his Cambridge University colleague Francis Crick, was speaking yesterday at the launch of the Wellcome Collection, a new national museum based in London that will examine the scientific and artistic connections between people and biomedicine.
Using current technology sequencing a single person's DNA takes 20 technicians around nine months. "In five years the hope is that you could reduce that to a week with just two or three people," said Michael Jones, head of the genomics core lab at Imperial College London. "New technologies are trying to eliminate the technicians you need. The idea is you can take someone's DNA and plug it into a machine and the data will come out.""
Well, as far as "cancer, obesity and diabetes" are concerned, the main contributory cause is fluid retention/sodium retention/salt sensitivity, which in turn is caused by misinformation from the medical profession about the causes and treatment of obesity, coupled with their reckless prescribing, often in high dose, of drugs like steroids, HRT and certain antidepressants and other drugs which cause sodium and water retention, and inadequate or non-existent monitoring of patients taking the drugs. - The high-tech stuff detailed in the article would come very low indeed in any list of desirable expenditure I were to compile...
See http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/steroids.html and http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/conditions.html
Lose weight by eating less salt! - Go on! - Try it! - You will feel so much better!
See my website http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/
Read my Mensa article on Obesity and the Salt Connection
(The site does not sell anything and has no banners or sponsors or adverts - just helpful information.)
Monday, 28 May 2007
Discovery of breast cancer genes opens door to new research.
Discovery of breast cancer genes will identify sufferers - Independent
Extract:
"Some scientists believe that the latest studies, published online in the journals Nature and Nature Genetics, are among the most important in the field of breast cancer since the first susceptibility genes for inherited forms of the disease were identified in the mid-1990s.
"This set of incredible scientific studies points to the future understanding of the genetics of cancer," said Professor Karol Sikora, a leading cancer specialist, who was not directly involved with the latest work.
"In theory, it allows you to look at thousands of people to study their genes and to find associations that we just didn't see before," Professor Sikora said.
Several teams of scientists took part in the latest studies, with the biggest led by Douglas Easton, a professor of cancer epidemiology at Cambridge University, who studied the DNA of nearly 50,000 women, half of whom had breast cancer.
The scientists used "DNA chips" to screen each person's genome for genetic variations that were found to be strongly linked with breast cancer. Small variations in four genes emerged as the most likely associations.
"We're very excited by these results because the regions we identified don't contain previously known inherited cancer genes," Professor Easton said.
"This opens the door to new research directions. Only very recent advances in technology have allowed us to carry out such a large comparison study," he said.
Already, the scientists are applying the same approach to other cancers, such as prostate, lung and bowel cancers, in the hope of identifying genetic changes that can trigger a higher risk of developing any of the diseases.
Breast cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer in British women with some 44,000 new cases diagnosed each year.
Inherited forms of breast cancer that are known to run in families account for between 5 and 10 per cent of cases. These genes - called BRCA1 and BRCA2 - were the first to be identified in the mid-1990s."
A safe, easy way to lower your risk of developing cancer is to stop eating salt and salty food and to eat plenty of fruit and fresh vegetables. This is because obesity is implicated in most cancers and obesity is principally caused by sensitivity to salt/sodium, resulting in sodium and water retention in the bloodstream. Fruit and fresh vegetables help because these foods are rich in potassium, and potassium displaces some of the sodium and its accompanying water from the bloodstream.
Lose weight by eating less salt! Go on! - Try it! - You will feel so much better!
See my website www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk
(The site does not sell anything and has no banners or sponsors or adverts - just helpful information.)
Extract:
"Some scientists believe that the latest studies, published online in the journals Nature and Nature Genetics, are among the most important in the field of breast cancer since the first susceptibility genes for inherited forms of the disease were identified in the mid-1990s.
"This set of incredible scientific studies points to the future understanding of the genetics of cancer," said Professor Karol Sikora, a leading cancer specialist, who was not directly involved with the latest work.
"In theory, it allows you to look at thousands of people to study their genes and to find associations that we just didn't see before," Professor Sikora said.
Several teams of scientists took part in the latest studies, with the biggest led by Douglas Easton, a professor of cancer epidemiology at Cambridge University, who studied the DNA of nearly 50,000 women, half of whom had breast cancer.
The scientists used "DNA chips" to screen each person's genome for genetic variations that were found to be strongly linked with breast cancer. Small variations in four genes emerged as the most likely associations.
"We're very excited by these results because the regions we identified don't contain previously known inherited cancer genes," Professor Easton said.
"This opens the door to new research directions. Only very recent advances in technology have allowed us to carry out such a large comparison study," he said.
Already, the scientists are applying the same approach to other cancers, such as prostate, lung and bowel cancers, in the hope of identifying genetic changes that can trigger a higher risk of developing any of the diseases.
Breast cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer in British women with some 44,000 new cases diagnosed each year.
Inherited forms of breast cancer that are known to run in families account for between 5 and 10 per cent of cases. These genes - called BRCA1 and BRCA2 - were the first to be identified in the mid-1990s."
A safe, easy way to lower your risk of developing cancer is to stop eating salt and salty food and to eat plenty of fruit and fresh vegetables. This is because obesity is implicated in most cancers and obesity is principally caused by sensitivity to salt/sodium, resulting in sodium and water retention in the bloodstream. Fruit and fresh vegetables help because these foods are rich in potassium, and potassium displaces some of the sodium and its accompanying water from the bloodstream.
Lose weight by eating less salt! Go on! - Try it! - You will feel so much better!
See my website www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk
(The site does not sell anything and has no banners or sponsors or adverts - just helpful information.)
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