Precision medicine

Precision medicine aims to alter the treatments based on individual characteristics, including differences in genetics, environment, and lifestyle.

Today, the University of Oxford, Prenetics Limited, a global leader in diagnostics and genetic testing, and Oxford Suzhou Centre for Advanced Research (OSCAR) have signed collaboration agreements to further develop the award-winning OxLAMPTM technology, a rapid, molecular testing technology for infectious diseases.

Latest illustration for Columbia Medicine magazine about how the growing use of precision medicine's exome sequencing provides potential for happy endings in treating severe childhood illnesses....

To develop precision medicine, the need to identify various disease stages of the patients is facilitated by biomarkers. In this new era, biomarkers are mostly focused on genetics, specifically, they are molecules or genes or hormones.

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—leilakabaritiIt only takes about one year for 98% of the atoms in your body to be replaced. So in essence, you're practically an entirely new person every year.

At the Fast Company Grill in Austin, Merck and other industry leaders offered a glimpse of what’s to come—tech that could “change almost everything.”