On Nov. 3, 2015, a capacity crowd of more than 250 Johns Hopkins leaders, faculty, staff, students, donors, and other guests filled the Albert H. Owens Auditorium at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center to honor the philanthropy of Sidney Kimmel for advancing cancer discovery and care. Hundreds more watched via video streaming as Kimmel […]
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Sequencing Our Genes: The Promise of the Cancer Genome
Posted by Valerie Matthews-Mehl | Prevention/Screening, ResearchThis is the final blog in a three-part series about Genome Sequencing and Predicting Cancer. Just as every person is genetically unique, so is every cancer. While cancer is not usually written in the DNA we are born with, the story of each individual cancer is contained within the unique and different DNA of the cancer […]
Jul 6, 2012 No comments
Sequencing Our Genes: What it Does and Doesn’t Do
Posted by admin | Prevention/ScreeningThis is the second blog in a three-part series. As technology that makes it possible to quickly sequence an individual’s whole genome becomes increasingly more available and affordable, people have begun to wonder about its ability to predict diseases a person is likely to develop. If I had my whole genome sequenced, could it reveal whether […]
Jun 5, 2012 No comments
Sequencing our Genes: Is Cancer Written in our DNA?
Posted by Valerie Matthews-Mehl | Prevention/ScreeningThis is the first blog in a three-part series about Genome Sequencing and Predicting Cancer. Technology called next generation sequencing can be used to reveal an individual’s complete and entire DNA (whole genome). Right now, it costs about $5,000 to sequence an individual’s whole genome, but the price tag is decreasing rapidly. With its increasing […]
May 16, 2012 No comments