by Caitlin Kingsley | Jul 10, 2015 | Genetic Journal
In the words of the National Institute of Health, precision medicine is an approach to disease treatment and prevention that accounts for individual variability in genes, environment and lifestyle. In simpler terms, precision medicine means using a tailored treatment...
by Caitlin Kingsley | May 28, 2015 | Genetic Journal
Geneticists have long had visions of a future in which medicine would be customized based on each individual’s genetic makeup. But the reality of tailoring treatment based on genetic testing has been a complex, expensive and ethically grey area, and...