September 2005

Kings of Genes and Data

With better access to patients and turbocharged IT, scientists at deCODE Genetics are rapidly traversing the perilous terrain between genetics and the clinic.
By Mark D. Uehling

Science + Technology

• Fantastic 454: DNA Sequencing Revolution
  SEQUENCING - New platforms slash cost, time of genome analysis.
• MAP to Discovery
  DRUG DISCOVERY - BioSeek uses cell-based assays to mimic disease.
• Murky Diary Entries
  PATIENT REPORTED OUTCOMES - Booming patient diary market waits uneasily for FDA's new guidelines.
• High-Throughput Biologics Production
  FULLY EQUIPPED - Growing pipeline of protein drugs requires new approaches to volume production.
  By Robert M. Frederickson
• News Blast
• New Products

IT + Informatics

In Every Issue

• Questions of Science and Progress
  FIRST BASE - Consider, for a moment, the many questions still facing science.
  By Kevin Davies
• Labor Pains and Gains
  THE RUSSELL TRANSCRIPT - Transparency could pull Pharma out of critics' bull's eye.
  By John Russell