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Challenges in AI-Enabled Biomarker Discovery

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Patient biomarkers are now used in personalized medicine to predict disease progression, minimize side effects, and maximize therapeutic benefits in the treatment of disease. In oncology, the use of biomarkers has increased...more

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USPTO Seeks Comments From Tribes on Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge, and Cultural Expressions

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On October 24, 2023, the US Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”), which is a component of the Department of Commerce, published two notices in the Federal Register seeking input from Tribal Nations regarding intellectual...more

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Gene Therapy Approvals Gain Steam in 2023: Treatments Offer New Hopes for Rare Diseases

After decades of intense scientific research into developing gene editing technologies, and more than a few setbacks, the field has produced a number of success stories in recent years, demonstrating that regulatory agencies...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

[Podcast] Rare Disease; Rarer Organization: How EB Research Partnership Drives Rare Disease Research

In this episode of OnAir: Health Care, Akin Gump senior policy advisor Matthew Hittle and consultant Dr. Mario Ramirez welcome Michael Hund of EB Research Partnership....more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

The Further Elucidation of Domestic Dog Ancestry

An international cadre of scientists* from almost 70 institutions worldwide recently reported their findings in the scientific journal Nature that the domesticated dog (Canis familiaris) arose from two populations of...more

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Legal confusion on essentially derived varieties must be cleared up for the sake of innovation - Green light to gene-editing...

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As gene editing techniques come to the fore in the UK and elsewhere, industry increasingly needs clarity on the breeder's exception to plant variety rights. Originally published on IAM media.com on May 2022....more

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A Must-Read Article For Artificially Conceived Kids & Their Genetic Parents

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In the past several months we have written a couple of times about the world of anonymous parentage and the conflict it has unintentionally ignited. In October we published “23 and EEEEEE” excerpting from the Philadelphia...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Getting Closer to a Definitive Biomarker for Parkinson’s Disease

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Parkinson’s disease is a devastating, incurable, progressive and degenerative neurological disease that affects movement. There are no biomarkers available and it is diagnosed by symptomology alone. Unfortunately, the...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Dire Wolf DNA Shows Distinct New World Lineage

The dire wolf (Canis dirus), prototype of the various wolves that were important members of the House Stark family of characters in Game of Thrones, was found uniquely in North America until its extinction in the late...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Molecular Mechanism for (In)Famous Warburg Effect in Cancer Elucidated

Cancer, the "Emperor of All Maladies" as it has been termed, has been studied for millennia.  President Nixon's "War on Cancer" resulted in slow but steady progress, aided by the biotechnology revolution, the development of...more

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Genetic and COVID-19 Testing Companies Set To Be Regulated in California

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In the last days of the most recent legislative session, the California State Legislature was busy passing several privacy bills set to impact businesses. The most recent, the Genetic Information Privacy Act, would require...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Sequence Comparisons Illustrate Susceptibility to Coronavirus Infection

The pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the most severe since the 1918 influenza pandemic (colloquially known as the Spanish Flu; see, J. Barry, The Great Influenza: The Story of...more

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Genetic Lesion Segregation Found in Chemically Induced Tumors in Mice

Genetic instability has long been recognized as a hallmark of oncogenesis and tumor progression. The phenomenon was first identified cytogenetically, most famously by the Philadelphia chromosome in chronic myelogenous...more

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Genetic Diversity and Relationships of Living and Extinct Lions

Lions (Panthera leo) once were a widely distributed group of terrestrial mammals, ranging during the Pleistocene (from about 2,580,000 to 11,700 years ago) in Eurasia, Africa, and North America, with species that included the...more

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Genetic Typing Could Answer Key Questions in COVID-19 Tort Litigation

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As the coronavirus pandemic engulfs us, it is easy to imagine the litigation that may follow—including tort suits seeking damages for illness or death allegedly caused by negligent or reckless exposure. Possible fact patterns...more

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Day 2 Notes at the 2020 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference

The Big Cost; Cancer is the Answer; and SDOH Evolves - The Big Cost: You’re okay today, and then tomorrow you’re not. Life has changed and there’s a new reality. Whether it’s an acute event – an accident, a heart attack, a...more

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The Era of Personalized Medicine Has Arrived - PMC’s Annual Progress and Outlook Report

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The Personalized Medicine Coalition (PMC) released its annual “Personalized Medicine At FDA: A Progress & Outlook Report” (Report) that monitors current successes and challenges in bringing personalized therapies to market....more

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Avocado Genome Elucidated

The avocado, having gained popularity (at least in the U.S.) as a convenient (and delicious) vehicle for consuming otherwise not particularly healthful corn chips, has more recently been hailed as a "superfood" when consumed...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

CMS Expands Coverage of Certain Advanced Cancer Companion Diagnostic Tests Employing Next Generation Sequencing

Recently, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) decided to provide nationwide reimbursement for certain in vitro, companion diagnostic tests that employ Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) for patients with advanced...more

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Obstacles in the Path? Medicare’s National Coverage Determination on Next-Generation Sequencing Has Significant Implications for...

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A controversial new Medicare national coverage determination (“Medicare NCD”) for certain next-generation sequencing (“NGS”) tests published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) on March 16, 2018, could...more

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FDA Approves Keytruda as First Cancer Treatment Based on a Genetic Biomarker

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved Keytruda (pembrolizumab) for treatment of patients whose cancers have a specific genetic feature (biomarker). The FDA has traditionally approved cancer treatments...more

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FDA Cleared First DTC Genetic Tests for Health Risks

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Last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted marketing authorization for 23andMe’s Personal Genome Service (PGS) Test for 10 diseases or conditions. This was the first FDA authorization for a...more

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Genetics a Likely Factor in Variability of Outcome Following Concussion

Most experts in traumatic brain injury (TBI) agree that there is a high degree of variability in outcomes after TBI, including concussions (usually characterized as “mild” TBIs – mTBI.) In other words, this injury is...more

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EMA’s New Draft Guideline On Good Pharmacogenomic Practice - Implications For Personalized Medicine

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Embracing personalized medicine, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) released a draft guidance document titled Draft Guideline on Good Pharmacogenomic Practice (“Guidance”) on good pharmacogenomic practice with the stated...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #38 – Genetic Privacy and the Use of Genomic Information

Genetic information is basically one’s DNA sequence, which includes health information and genetic information about the individual and their family. It is at the core of one’s individual privacy, as well as providing...more

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