January 8, 2016
Foreseeing the Future of Vaccines
By Jeff Briggs
Is there a new “omics” coming to health care? Here at the Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine we have epigenomics and pharmacogenomics. We have clinomics, and faithful readers of this blog know we love discussing genomics. Now, doctors at Mayo Clinic are pioneering a new field of research called vaccinomics. Their hope is to […]
Tags: center for individualized medicine, Clinomics, Dr Greg Poland, Epigenomics, individualized medicine, mayo clinic, Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group, pharmacogenomics, vaccinomics
December 23, 2015
By Jeff Briggs
In the not-so-distant future, whole genome sequencing — determining your entire unique DNA makeup in the laboratory — will be as routine as X-rays and cholesterol testing. Whole genome sequencing provides the most comprehensive collection available of an individual’s genetic variation. Genomic information has been instrumental in identifying inherited disorders, characterizing the mutations that drive […]
Tags: Biobank, center for individualized medicine, Clinomics, Dr. Keith Stewart, Genome Sequencing, Human Genome Project, mayo clinic, WGS, whole genome sequencing
January 2, 2014
Eric Schmidt, Google Chairman, Sees Genetics as “Unfathomably Important”
Not one to shy from giving bold predictions, Google Chairman and Mayo Clinic Trustee Eric Schmidt sat down with Bloomberg TV to talk on trends to watch for in 2014. One area of interest was the ability to have your personal genomic sequence available to you. The trove of medically relevant information stored in your […]
Tags: biomarker, Clinomics, DNA Sequencing, Epigenomics, Eric Schmidt, Genetics, Genome Sequencing, genomics, Google, individualized medicine, microbiome, personalized care