In 2007 Stanford microbiologist David Relman used newfangled genetic technology to track the bacteria present in 14 different newborns.
This is at least as good as the current genetic technology available for identifying mutations in patients with severe intellectual disability.
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Genomics companies like Myriad were originally given high valuations because their genetic technology was supposed to quickly lead to new drugs.
The FBI had traced the anthrax used in the attacks to the lab using a new genetic technology, a U.S. official familiar with the investigation said.
And genetic technology is getting cheaper by the day.
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Among the other applications of the same genetic technology, one has been on the market for several years: a beautiful ornamental aquarium fish called the Glofish, a zebra fish genetically altered to make it fluorescent.
This approach, which has been repeatedly condemned by the scientific community, has discouraged the development of new pest-resistant crops, encouraged greater use of synthetic chemical pesticides, and limited the use of the newest genetic engineering technology mainly to larger developers who can pay the inflated regulatory costs.
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Lewyn Li:I think that genetic engineering like all technology can and probably will unfortunately do both good and evil and something like this will be funded and pursued by somebody somewhere in the world.
The M.mycoides genome contains over a million letters of genetic code and current DNA-technology can string-together perhaps a few thousand units in one go.
This grueling internal battle appears to have left the CDRH, the FDA office empowered to oversee innovative medical technology devices, including genetic tests, in disarray.
Houston's Compaq is developing the supercomputing technology in collaboration with genetic database company Celera Genomics (nyse: CRA - news - people) and the Department of Energy's Sandia National Labs.
Their campaigns often pinpoint issues that involve a conflict between preserving the natural order of things and changing it either through new technology (such as genetic engineering) or through economic growth (leading, for example, to the increased use of cars).
While still at Curagen Rothberg realized that better technology was needed to make genetic medicine a reality.
It is planning to make its technology the standard for finding genetic mistakes that will in all likelihood become essential to drug discovery.
This pioneer in genomics uses its GeneChip technology to manufacture systems to analyze genetic data that helps in drug discoveries.
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Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. is engaged in the development, manufacture and commercialization of its single molecule, real-time, or SMRT technology-an integrated platform for genetic analysis.
It means that if, despite precautions, the Frankenbug does get out, its entirely harmless presence would be detectible in any given sample by straightforward DNA amplification technology of the sort used in genetic fingerprinting.
Doing that also requires opponents to realize that by demonizing the technology, they've hindered applications of genetic engineering that could save lives and protect the environment.
Rosetta's technology lets scientists look at that mountain of genetic code from above, helping them pick out the genes they need to know about from the entirety of the genome.
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Some of the fringe activist groups opposed to genetic engineering have an anti-science, anti-technology, anti-business agenda, but given the environmental advantages of Roundup-ready seeds it's puzzling that a group like the Sierra Club, one of the co-plaintiffs in the alfalfa and sugar beet litigation, is working so hard to keep the seeds off the market.
Greater fertilizer application, improved response to fertilizer, better tractor technology, better tillage practices, old-fashioned genetic selection, and new-fashioned genetic engineering all conspire to raise yields, year after year.
The problem, Rothberg says, is that technology hasn't been powerful enough to decode the genetic secrets lurking behind diseases like cancer, lupus and autism.
Friends of the Earth Europe, another anti-GMO group, says that the Sangamo technology may well turn out to be a type of genetic modification that it would oppose.
Are we so cocky as to believe that technology, wealth, education and deepening insights about the human genetic code have the power to banish conflict?
Thanks to advances in chromosomal technology, science types are unlocking many of the mysteries of our genetic makeup.
Dow Agro biologists have already accurately inserted genetic material into specific locations in maize and rapeseed genomes using Sangamo's technology.
In the quest for reproduction, only technology can give same-sex couples the chance of having their own genetic children.
"Every university that does genetic research potentially infringes their patents, " says Brent Brown of the University of Utah's technology-transfer office, which took its license in May.
To avoid that issue, Dr. Muller envisions the technology as part of a strategy in which people would first be identified as at risk through a genetic test and a noninvasive imaging test such as a CT scan before being referred for the spectroscopy analysis.
Rudolf Jaenisch. (Applause.) The 2010 National Medal of Science to Rudolph Jaenisch, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for improving our understanding of epigenetic regulation of gene expression, the biological mechanisms that affect how genetic information is variably expressed.
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