Personalized medicine

Personalized medicine is an umbrella term for all medical technologies enabling medicines tailored to individuals or specific groups of individuals. In contrast to current treatment modalities, where individuals and their disease states are grouped into gross phenotypic classifiers across entire populations, personalized medicine promises to more precisely match therapy to disease at the molecular level.  The advent of personalized medicine ... more

Personalized medicine is an umbrella term for all medical technologies enabling medicines tailored to individuals or specific groups of individuals. In contrast to current treatment modalities, where individuals and their disease states are grouped into gross phenotypic classifiers across entire populations, personalized medicine promises to more precisely match therapy to disease at the molecular level.  The advent of personalized medicine is enabled by advances in genomics, proteomics, drug delivery, information technology, and computational biology.

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