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The Personalized Medicine Coalition announced that Daryl Pritchard will be its new VP of science policy, in charge of promoting the organization's science-related policies and of raising awareness of precision healthcare issues among policymakers, providers, and patients. Before joining PMC, Pritchard was director of policy research at the National Pharmaceutical Council; director of research programs advocacy and personalized medicine at the Biotechnology Industry Organization; and the director of government affairs for the American Association for Dental Research.

Nabsys has appointed Steve Lombardi to president, CEO, and to its board of directors. Previously, he was CEO of Real Time Genomics, and before that he was CEO of Helicos BioSciences. He has also served as senior vice president of Affymetrix and vice president of genetic analysis at Applied Biosystems.

Roche said this week that Arthur Levinson has resigned from its board of directors, effective immediately. The drugmaker said Levinson, who was chairman and CEO at Genentech from 1999 to 2014, made the decision to avoid any conflict with his post as CEO at Calico, a Google-backed startup. Levinson has served on Roche's board since 2010.

Sanford Burnham Medical Research Institute said this week it has named Perry Nisen as its CEO and as holder of the Donald Bren Chief Executive Chair. Nisen joins Sanford Burnham from GlaxoSmithKline, where he was senior VP of science and innovation.

The New York Genome Center has named Carol Ashe its new chief business officer. She previously served as VP of corporate development for pharmaceutical firm Endo International, and prior to that was a partner at GlaxoSmithKline's venture capital fund, SR One. Ashe also led GSK's US corporate legal group, which supported M&A transactions and the business development legal transactions team.

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More than a year and a half after a Lake Worth armed burglary, Palm Beach County Sheriffs deputies arrested a man through a connection of DNA and an accomplice-turned witness, according to an arrest report.

In February 2013, three men were caught on video breaking into a Lake Worth home and getting away with about $2,700 worth of property including a television, an Xbox, a PlayStation, a skateboard and a projector, the report said. The three were driven away in a black BMW.

One of the men put black spray paint on an outdoor surveillance camera, but indoor cameras caught the movements the men, who had their faces covered.

DNA found on articles of clothing worn during the alleged incident later placed Andrew Crammer, Avalon George and Brandon Castro at the scene. All three men were on camera wearing the articles of clothing that had matching DNA, the report said.

Crammer, 20, was also holding a handgun during the burglary, the report said. He also unmasks himself during the video and the image closely matches his likeness, the report said.

No recent arrest records appear for George or Castro in connection to this incident. Both have previous arrests and Crammer has a previous arrest this year for marijuana possession with intent to sell.

Crammer faces charges of armed burglary and theft of more than $300. He remains in Palm Beach County Jail in lieu of $103,000 bail.

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Record number of genomes being decoded, but cost of DNA sequencing might not fall much further, says Illumina president.

Francis de Souza, president of Illumina

Henry Ford kept lowering the price of cars, and more people kept buying them. The San Diegobased gene sequencing company Illumina has been doing something similar with the tools needed to interpret the human genetic code.

A record 228,000 human genomes will be completely sequenced this year by researchers around the globe, said Francis de Souza, president of Illumina, the maker of machines for DNA sequencing, during MIT Technology Reviews EmTech conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

De Souza said Illuminas estimates suggest that the number will continue to double about every 12 months, reaching 1.6 million genomes by 2017, as the technology shifts from a phase of collapsing prices to expanding use in medicine.

The price of sequencing a single genome has dropped from the $3 billion spent by the original Human Genome Project 13 years ago to as little as $1,000, he said.

During an interview, De Souza questioned whether the price would keep falling at that rate. Its not clear you can get another order of magnitude out of this, he said. Instead, he said, his companys focus is now on making DNA studies more widespread in hospitals, police labs, and other industries.

The bottleneck now is not the costits going from a sample to an answer, De Souza said. People are saying the price is not the issue.

Illuminas sequencing machines, which cost as much as $1 million each, are unmatched in their speed and accuracy. But the companys growth has rested sometimes precariously on two curves. One has been the collapsing price of sequencing. The other is the soaring demand from genome scientists and funding agencies.

During the EmTech conference, De Souza said Illuminas success was due to a hard pivot the company made in 2006, when it got into the DNA sequencing business by acquiring Solexa, a U.K. startup, and bet its fortunes on a technology with no sales, that no one knew if it would work.

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Palmer United Party Senator Jacqui Lambie recently created controversy by claiming in her first speech to Parliament that going back six generations, she was related to the renowned Tasmanian Aboriginal leaderMannalargenna.

Responding to accusations that she had never previously identified herself publicly as an indigenous person, Senator Lambie said, "I know what's in my blood", and offered to take a DNA testto prove her indigenous ancestry "once and for all".

No one can tell Senator Lambie or her family how to feel about their heritage, nor the degree of affinity and pride they are entitled to draw from their family history. And Senator Lambie's stated concern to use her political position to advocate on behalf of indigenous people is welcome. However, it is more problematic whether Senator Lambie can do this on the basis that she is an "indigenous person".

The question of whether indigenous, racial or ethnic identity could be determined by genetic testing was considered in a landmark inquiry by the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) in 2003, which I chaired and which culminated in the reportEssentially Yours: The Protection of Human Genetic Information in Australia.

As we noted in that report, since British colonisation, various governments had usedno less than 67 classifications, descriptions or definitionsto determine who is an Aboriginal person in Australia.

The propriety of using genetic testing and information as an aspect of determining communal identityhas arisen previously in Tasmania, following challenges to the eligibility of about 600 people to vote in the 2002ATSICelections. This may be unsurprising, given the vexed history of race relations in that state.

The ALRC inquiry followed hard on the heels of the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2000, which concluded that race and ethnicity were social constructs, without a clear genetic foundation. This approach has been reflected in Australia law and practice sinceat least the early 1980s.

As Justice Gerald Brennan wrote in his leading judgment inMabo v Queensland (No 2), when it came to native title law, the accepted test of whether someone is indigenous has three parts:

Membership of the indigenous people depends on biological descent from the indigenous people and on mutual recognition of a particular person's membership by that person and by the elders or other persons enjoying traditional authority among those people.

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