BIOL 1003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: 23Andme, Cancer Immunotherapy, Cancer Vaccine
15 May 2016
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Used in clinics and will continue to be even on commercial scale. Definition: medical care given to individuals that is based on their unique genetic predisposition. It is quite easy now to have elements of genome sequenced and make that information available to clinicians. Importance in past, medicine done based on symptoms. Individual types of diseases, symptoms can be very different because individuals exhibiting those symptoms and diseases are not genetically the same. To understand that and the differences between different patients and their genetic profiles can alter the types of treatments they get from their physicians. That is part of personalized medicine to make medicine more specific, more targeted to individual patient. Huge goal of medicine but now a reality based on technology we have. The type of dna information you can get commercially company 23andme (personal genetics. Company), you can get a segment of your genome sequence through very simple process.
