Showing posts with label gene therapy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gene therapy. Show all posts

Monday, October 03, 2011

Could Gaming Community Be Solution To Personalized Medicine?



 This comes under the category of "Great Idea!".

Using the massive gaming community to decipher proteins. Why not tap into this creativity to solve more pressing problems than Mario finding the magic muffin.

What has taken 15 years, gamers did it in 10 days.

Gamers were able to decipher a protein called “retroviral protease”. The protease is one of the key proteins that allows HIV to multiply and replicate itself in living cells. Using FoldIt, gamers were able to identify the structure of the protein — within a matter of 10 days.

This comes right after another blockbuster announcement in medicine.
   
Full story from TechCrunch


 Ok entrepreneurs, start creating other games to solve more.

Can you see why this is the Next Investing Boom?





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Saturday, September 24, 2011

The Next Investing Boom



What a week. Not because the stock market took such a beating but because several medical breakthroughs were announced providing the tipping point for the next investing boom. Astute investors I am sure noticed it though.


Sangamo Biosciences announced a gene therapy cure for AIDS  and there may finally be a cure for Parkinson's disease. Breast cancer was also shown to be cured using gene therapy. Gene therapy was even proven to treat blindness.

Pfizer received FDA approval for a drug that shrinks or eliminates tumors associated with lung cancer. They are using genetic testing  to determine if patient has the gene for this therapy.

  And this is the key to gene therapy
There is a company that controls the IP for junk DNA. It can be found in the list of Patent Play Stocks 

Genomics, or "personalized medicine" will be the next investing boom. It will be much larger than the Internet boom and will create more millionaires than the Internet Wave did.

The Internet was all about saving time and communication.
The personalized medicine boom is about adding time. More specifically, adding years to life.

How much will it be worth? Trillions. Why?

I don't know if it will be a zero sum situation but try to get your head around these 2 figures.
1. the amount of money spent to treat the disease/condition
2. the amount of money lost when disease/condition is cured



Sending a document anywhere in the world, buying a book/song, speaking to anyone all done using fiberoptics was revolutionary. Billions of dollars have been generated in revenues, thousands of new companies have been created and numerous networths have been changed.

That is nothing compared to what's ahead. The amount of money that will be spent by various industries and people, to live longer and better will be in the trillions.

 Here is an excerpt from the book How To Find Big Stocks It discusses the companies and technologies to look for in this upcoming wave.

I consider this wave the biggest “problem solver” ever that will affect every person in the world, rich or poor. It will create and destroy multi-billion dollar companies.

The 30,000 "switches" in your body (genes) or the "software of life", represent the next investing boom.

With the Internet boom, the first movers were the chip companies, PC manufacturers, and Internet providers. They provided the infrastructure to make it happen. It was people selling maps, picks and shovels that made the fortunes during the gold rush boom.

With the personalized medicine boom, the first movers will be (and already are) the companies that: provide access to the human genome (DNA), the testing kit manufacturers, DNA analysis technology, and the testing companies themselves.

What will also accelerate this investing boom? There are 10 billion dollar drugs, also known as "blockbusters" coming off patent in 17 months. The pharmaceutical industry is being disrupted big time. The days of one drug treats or cures all, are over. Drugs will now be specialized or personalized, and that is going to require knowing how genes work. The human genome database is going to be accessed A LOT.

Get ready for this investing boom. They say the Internet boom was a once in a lifetime thing. The fortunes created will never happen again. Never say never. The "personalized medicine" investing wave will blow away the wealth that was created during the Internet boom.

You are going to see multi-billion dollar companies get crushed when this wave hits. Think of what happens to the companies that make billions to TREAT a disease or condition. How do they stay in business when the disease is CURED. Billions of dollars are generated to just treat cholesterol and high blood pressure.

While sending a document anywhere in the world, buying a book/song, speaking to anyone has made our lives much easier, personalized medicine will extend our life and make it better. How much is that worth?

To get an idea of what disruptive technologies and companies I am looking for in this wave, and others,  my book How To Find Big Stocks explains it all. I disclose the tool I use and used, to turn $10k into $2.8m in 2 years.

There are 3 waves I am watching that are all "wealth changers". I even give you the specific technologies I am looking for right now in one of the waves.
















The tool that turned $10,000 into $2,800,000 in 2 years. HowToFindBigStocks.com

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Gene Therapy Just Around The Corner



 From Discover It's years not decades now

a package deal: get your genome sequenced, and he and his collaborators will develop a line of  induced pluripotent stem cells (IPS) from your tissue, so in the future, you’ll be able upgrade your system with organs and tissues bearing both your genes and special extras like genes from centenarians.

It’s combining stem cells with  gene therapy.


I don’t think people have fully appreciated how quickly adult stem cells and sequencing and synthetic biology have progressed.



The tool that turned $10,000 into $2,800,000 in 2 years. HowToFindBigStocks.com

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Half Of Cancer Deaths Are Preventable


 Personalized medicine will transform medicine from reactive to proactive.

From CBS Marketwatch Half of cancer deaths are preventable

According to the American Association for Cancer Research, cancer is not a single disease, but more than 200 different ones.

Even when patients have a hereditary link with cancer, they can choose to have cancer-risk counseling that may help them take control if further prevention options or more aggressive screening is needed, said Dr. Jeffrey Weitzel, 
director of the Department of Clinical Cancer Genetics at the City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center in Duarte, Calif. 

"Genetics isn't necessarily destiny," Weitzel said. 

"Advanced protocols... are designed to take what we know about breast cancer and epidemiology and turn it around in a way that might allow prevention." 


Earlier diagnosis of breast cancer, for example, often allows not just for better odds of beating it altogether, but also better quality of life during treatment than was achievable even a few years ago, he said. 

"Right now what we have is a good circumstance," Weitzel said. "We're having to try to figure out ever more carefully which of the early-stage patients truly need therapy and which could be spared, whereas previously we were hoping just to have a greater proportion of them be earlier-staged."



The tool that turned $10,000 into $2,800,000 in 2 years. HowToFindBigStocks.com

Monday, September 19, 2011

Gene Therapy Provides Breakthrough For AIDS




Personalized Medicine, or Genomics, is a HUGE wave that is coming and stands to create more millionares that the Internet did.


I go into great detail on what areas to start looking at in my book How To Find Big Stocks

Today, Sangamo announced a huge breakthrough in the fight against AIDS that utilizes gene therapy. In addition, Sangamo is also a company on our Patent Play Stocks List

Here is the story  (highlights in yellow and post it is my summary)





The tool that turned $10,000 into $2,800,000 in 2 years. HowToFindBigStocks.com