Specified Life

Devoted to the topic of data specification (including data organization, data description, data retrieval and data sharing) in the life sciences and in medicine.

Saturday, May 11, 2019

Index: Evolution's Clinical Guidebook

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In the past few blogs, I've been discussing the recent publication of my book, Evolution’s Clinical Guidebook: Translating Ancient Genes...
Friday, May 10, 2019

Contents: Evolution’s Clinical Guidebook: Translating Ancient Genes Into Precision Medicine

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In yesterday's blog, I announced the publication of my book, Evolution’s Clinical Guidebook: Translating Ancient Genes Into Precision M...
Thursday, May 9, 2019

Just Published: Evolution’s Clinical Guidebook: Translating Ancient Genes Into Precision Medicine

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This month, Academic Press has published my book, Evolution’s Clinical Guidebook: Translating Ancient Genes Into Precision Medicine . The ...
Saturday, August 4, 2018

Second Edition of Principles and Practice of Big Data now on Science Direct

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The Second edition of my book Principles and Practice of Big Data has just been released and is available for purchase at many sites, inclu...
Wednesday, May 9, 2018

Read Precision Medicine and the Reinvention of Human Disease on ScienceDirect

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It is regrettable that many of my textbooks are unaffordable to the majority of the potential market. For Example, Precision Medicine and ...
Thursday, February 15, 2018

Inscrutable Genes

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"In most cases, the molecular consequences of disease, or trait-associated variants for human physiology, are not understood." ...
Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Infections Develop Via a Sequence of Biological Steps

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A prior post listed 7 assertions regarding the role of infectious organisms on the human genome. In the next few blogs we'll look at e...
Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Non-immunologic Causes of Increased Susceptibility to Disease

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A prior post listed 7 assertions regarding the role of infectious organisms on the human genome. In the next few blogs we'll look at e...
Monday, February 12, 2018

Infection without Disease (from Precision Medicine and the Reinvention of Human Disease)

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A prior post listed 7 assertions regarding the role of infectious organisms on the human genome. In the next few blogs we'll look at e...
Sunday, February 11, 2018

Cellwise, We Are Mostly Inhuman

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A prior post listed 7 assertions regarding the role of infectious organisms on the human genome. In the next few blogs we'll look at e...
Saturday, February 10, 2018

Genome-Specific Responses to Infection

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A prior post listed 7 assertions regarding the role of infectious organisms on the human genome. In the next few blogs we'll look at e...
Friday, February 9, 2018

Vertebrate Evolution Driven by DNA from Infectious Organisms

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A prior post listed 7 assertions regarding the role of infectious organisms on the human genome. In the next few blogs we'll look at e...
Thursday, February 8, 2018

RELIC DNA IN THE HUMAN GENOME

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Yesterday's post listed 7 assertions regarding the role of infectious organisms on the human genome. In the next few blogs we'll l...
Wednesday, February 7, 2018

Infections have made their mark on the Human Genome

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In the context of Precision Medicine, infections draw our attention because they have played an important role in the evolution of the eukar...
Tuesday, February 6, 2018

Precision Medicine and Public Health (from Precision Medicine and the Reinvention of Human Disease)

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Excerpted from Precision Medicine and the Reinvention of Human Disease Despite having the most advanced healthcare technology on the plane...
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Jules Berman received two baccalaureate degrees from MIT; in Mathematics, and in Earth and Planetary Sciences. He received the Ph.D. from Temple University, and the M.D. from the U. of Miami. He received post-doctoral training at NIH and residency training at Geo. Washington U Med Ctr. He is board certified in anatomic pathology and in cytopathology. He served as Chief of Anatomic Pathology, Surgical Pathology and Cytopathology at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland, where he held joint appointments at the University of Maryland Medical Center and the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. In 1998, he became a Medical Officer at the U.S. National Cancer Institute and served as the Program Director for Pathology Informatics in the Institute's Cancer Diagnosis Program. In 2006, Jules Berman was President of the Association for Pathology Informatics. In 2011 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Pathology Informatics. Today, Jules Berman is a free-lance writer. He has first-authored more than 100 articles and 13 book titles in science and medicine.
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