Month: July 2019
Precision Medicine Depends on Patient and Research Diversity
July 25, 2019
As medical researchers steadily amass knowledge of the human genome, there’s a stubborn blind spot: Most genomic research arises from subjects of white European descent. In 2,500 recently published human genomics papers reviewed in one recent study, only 19% of the participants were of non-European ancestry. The diversity deficit is a problem: At stake is […]
Five Questions with Healthcare Data Expert Dave John
July 18, 2019
Dave John joined iSpecimen last month as vice president of product management. Dave is a life sciences data and informatics expert with extensive experience developing solutions for genomics, translational medicine, clinical trials and electronic health records. He will help shape future capabilities of the iSpecimen Marketplace. 1. You are a data expert. How does data […]
Human Biofluids: Fueling Liquid Biopsies for Non-Invasive Cancer Detection
July 11, 2019
Biofluids – including blood, plasma, saliva, urine and even cheek swabs – can tell us a lot about a person’s health, which is why patients are routinely asked to provide these samples in the lab for testing. With a small amount of blood, for example, complex testing and screening of its chemistry, enzymes, lipoproteins and […]
Learning from the Past: The Fight against Opioid Addiction
July 2, 2019
What makes one person able to take painkillers without incident while another becomes addicted, and a third overdoses and dies? New Jersey researchers are exploring these questions, using a first-of-its-kind biobank of brains and blood samples from opioid users. In a three-year, $4 million study, researchers and clinicians from the Coriell Institute for Medical […]
Six Questions with Emily Hubbard
Emily is director of site management and development at iSpecimen, where she develops relationships with organizations that want to share human biospecimens with researchers on the iSpecimen Marketplace. 1. Where do the human biofluids, tissues and hematopoietic stem and immune cells available on the iSpecimen Marketplace come from? The specimens and data available on the […]
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