The promise of precision medicine
Precision medicine is set to revolutionise patient care
Precision medicine is an approach to patient care that enables doctors and pharmacists to select the treatments or preventative strategies that are most likely to help their patients based on the individuals’ phenotypes and genotypes – in other words, their genetic make-up.
It holds great promise because it can give medical practitioners access to more specific information about their patients and provide them with the capacity to tailor their recommendations accordingly.
We’ve already made big advances in precision medicine research, and it is increasingly being integrated into mainstream healthcare.
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The neuroscientist Dr. Andrew Brooks, a research professor at Rutgers University in the US, recently passed away – but not before leaving his mark on a pandemic-stricken world.
The neuroscientist Dr. Andrew Brooks, a research professor at Rutgers University in the US, recently passed away – but not before leaving his mark on a pandemic-stricken world.
Dr. Brooks was responsible for developing the first saliva test for the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. The test employs a low-contact collection method – spitting in a tube as opposed to having someone coming into contact to swab your nose and throat for samples – and has since been used to perform more than four million tests as it continues to be one of the most reliable methods for testing.