Precision Medicine Exits the Hype Cycle and Enters into Productive Clinical Use

The notion of precision medicine broadly refers to the administration of a patient-specific treatment based on unique features of an individual or their disease that are identified in the laboratory. This concept is not new to medicine and has existed for many years to allow for the administration of compatible blood products and antibiotics selected based on antibiotic resistance testing. The modern incarnation of precision medicine leverages our ability to determine the molecular cause of genetic disorders and apply rational therapies based on specific disease-causing genetic variants.
Source: Clinics in Laboratory Medicine - Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Tags: Preface Source Type: research