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• 'Personalised' cancer drug test

  A gene test that predicts which cancer drugs will be most effective for different people is to be trialled by Duke University researchers. The test scans thousands of genes from a patient's tumor to produce a genomic profile of the cancer's molec... Read more
  Posted Monday, October 23, 2006 9:12 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Cancer, Pharmacogenetics

• Saving Lives With Tailor-Made Medication

  Pharmacogenetics, a clinical discipline in which doctors use high-tech genetic testing to custom-make drugs to patients' individual needs, will mean that we define smaller and smaller markets for every drug. Instead of one medication for high blo... Read more
  Posted Monday, August 28, 2006 10:52 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 1 Comments

  Tags: Pharmacogenetics