• Mount Sinai Aims To Enroll One Million People In Genetic Sequencing Project

    Bio-IT World | The greater New York metropolitan area is the epicenter of an ambitious human genome sequencing research project newly launched by Mount Sinai Health System and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. If the vision is realized, Mount Sinai will enroll a million patients into a study over the next five years that will sequence and analyze the DNA in their blood to tease out the role of genetics and environment on health.

    Sep 15, 2022

  • Public More Protective Of Their Health Information Than Their Biospecimens

    Bio-IT World | In the ongoing debate about whether biospecimens should be covered by human subjects research regulations, bioethicists at the University of Michigan recently added a critical datapoint in disproving one of the arguments—namely, that the public feels more protective of their biospecimens than their health information.

    Sep 14, 2022

  • Digestive Hormones Found to Significantly Influence Infectious Wound Healing

    Bio-IT World | The University of Calgary research team discovered that neutrophils and monocytes—two types of white blood cells—play distinct roles in wound healing, with digestive hormones contributing to immune function.

    Sep 13, 2022