Personalized Medicine for the Infertile Male

Personalized medicine uses a patient ’s genotype, environment, and lifestyle choices to create a tailored diagnosis and therapy plan, with the goal of minimizing side effects, avoiding lost time with ineffective treatments, and guiding preventative strategies. Although most precision medicine strategies are still within the laborator y phase of development, this article reviews the promising technologies with the greatest potential to improve the diagnosis and treatment options for male infertility, including sperm cell transplantation, genomic editing, and new biomarker assays, based on the latest proteomic and epigenomic studi es.
Source: Urologic Clinics of North America - Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Source Type: research