BIOL 311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Growth Factor, Macular Degeneration, Hypothermia
17 Sep 2016
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Personalized medicine - testing patients based on their unique genomic and proteomic profiles: genome, genetic tests - not fda regulated, myriad genetics (ppt) Predicting breast cancer: gina (genetic information nondiscrimination act) - prevents discrimination based on your genome in the workplace, informed consent. In the us - a disease that has less than 200,000 patients. Consequences of these two acts: recognizing orphan/rare disease, if work on this disease, inc patent rights. Example: fop - genetic disorder only 185 ppl in us. Understanding disease doesn"t mean you know the cure. Cell biology and religion hescs = human embryonic stem cells: originate from a living human embryo. Take the inner cell and can make insulin secreting pancreatic islet cells neurons hepatocytes cell therapy clinical trials. Non-federal state, private federal money does not equal non-federal (esp. regarding stem cells) Cell strain - divide 25-50 times, then they senesce, die.
