How President Obama and Congress is helping find a Breast Cancer Cure.

January 15, 2010 By Robert Graham ---- Frontiers in Personalized Medicine: Washington DC



How President Obama and Congress helping find a Breast Cancer Cure.

Genomics Science for Breast Cancer is making real progress with the Science Communities. President Obama 111th Congress Passing H.R.5116 COMPETES Act "America COMPETES Re authorization Act of 2010" and Stand Up to Cancer $15 million grant will help The Science Community Develop A blood test so sensitive that it can spot a single cancer cell lurking among a billion healthy ones is moving one step closer to being available at your doctor's office. A example of this technology:

Hybrid Pharma Panoincell uses Semiconductor Sequencing Chips that create a direct connection between Biochemical and digital information, bringing these two languages together.Hybrid'schips are designed like any other semiconductor chips.

Pairing proprietary semiconductor technology with sequencing chemistry a nucleotide is incorporated into a strand of DNA by a polymerase, a hydrogen ion is released.

Hybrid Pharma used a high-density array of micro-machined wells for bioctechnology process in a massive way. Each well holds a different DNA template. Beneath the wells is an ion-sensitive layer and beneath that a proprietary Ion sensor.

When a nucleotide, is added to a DNA template and is then incorporated into a strand of DNA, a hydrogen ion will be released. The charge from that ion will change the pH of the solution, which can be detected. Hybrid's sequencer—essentially will call the base, going directly from Biochemical information to digital information. The out come is to find the p53, p63 and p73 genes that make up Breast Cancer

Mass General, Sloan-Kettering, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston will start using the test this year. They are one of the "dream teams" sharing a $15 million grant from the Stand Up to Cancer telethon, run by the American Association for Cancer Research.

H.R.5116 COMPETES Act bioscience research program will support Breast Cancer research and development of standard reference materials, measurements, methods, and genomic and other data to advance—
‘‘(1) biological drug research and development;
‘‘(2) molecular diagnostics;
‘‘(3) medical imaging technologies; and
‘‘(4) personalized medicine.

Fund the creation of bioscience user facility to provide access to advanced or unique equipment, services, materials, and other resources to industry, institutions of higher education, nonprofit organizations, and government agencies to perform research and testing.

Fund POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS to the extent practicable, assign 1 or more fellows from the postdoctoral fellowship program established in section 19 to the bioscience research program and much much more.

2011 is going to be a Great Year for Breast Cancer.