Axel Baez Torres

Clinical Pathologist. Medical Laboratory Director. Certified in Molecular Diagnostics. Masters in Pharmacogenomics. Advocate of Personalized Genomic Medicine.

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PGx Patients Facing Resistance from Providers Due to an Educational Gap
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[Precision Oncology News @PrecOncNews]

UCHealth Expands Preemptive PGx for Clopidogrel Across Hospital System, to Other Drugs. The biobank at the Colorado Center for Personalized Medicine has enabled the hospital's EHR system to send gene-drug interaction alerts proactively. https://t.co/NPSq8vFsNp

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Alabama ruled frozen embryos are children.

Meanwhile, Alabama eliminated its summer food program for children who’ve actually been born.

[Copernicus ECMWF @CopernicusECMWF]

🌍🌡️2023 is confirmed as the warmest calendar year on record, with a global average temperature of 14.98°C, 0.60°C above the 1991-2020 level, overtaking 2016, the previous warmest year.

Learn more in the #C3S Global Climate Highlights report 👉 https://t.co/i7ZDNIrPvj

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Datos publicados por la Sociedad Americana de Cáncer en relación a la opinión de los pacientes sobre las Pruebas Farmacogenómicas.
Data published by the American Cancer Society regarding patients views on Pharmacogenomic Testing.
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Another study on the implementation of Pharmacogenomic Testing. https://t.co/m2qYIZDvNe

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The importance of Whole Gennome Sequencing implementation. https://t.co/TKU7Yuh2re

[National Human Genome Research Institute @genome_gov]

Scientists currently use one reference genome as a guide to study humans, but one reference genome can't represent everyone! Now, researchers have created a “pangenome,” a collection of complete genomes in which more human populations and their genomic variants are represented.

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[CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil @CBSEveningNews]

The FDA is taking an unusual step to ease a desperate shortage of a widely used cancer drug by temporarily allowing an unapproved version of a chemotherapy drug, made in China, to be used on American cancer patients.

[Center for AI Safety @CAIS]

We’ve released a statement on the risk of extinction from AI.

Signatories include:
- Three Turing Award winners
- Authors of the standard textbooks on AI/DL/RL
- CEOs and Execs from OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Google DeepMind, Anthropic
- Many more

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[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

Tech Experts Warn Against “Risk of Extinction from AI” https://t.co/FtnUyI7bZq

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My thoughts on affordability and accessibility of Precision Medicine techniques and therapies.