BSC-1005 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Polymerase Chain Reaction, Gene Expression Profiling, Personalized Medicine
17 Nov 2016
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The most established application for synthetic biomaterials is the pharmaceutical industry. A pharmaceutical drug (or medicine) is any chemical substance intended for use in the medical diagnosis, cure, treatment, or prevention of disease. Antibiotics were one of the first biomolecules to be discovered and eventually synthesized. An antibiotic is a substance or compound that kills bacteria or inhibits their growth. Discovery and synthesis of antibiotics have provided general cures for multiple diseases. First natural antibiotic discovered was penicillin, attributed to alexander. Ability to rapidly and cheaply read a patient"s dna sequence would allow significant improvements in the diagnosis of disease and application of the appropriate treatments. A trial and error approach is often taken due to differences in patients. Knowledge of a particular patient"s state at the molecular level would allow personalized medicine, or a medical model emphasizing the systematic use of information about an individual patient to select or optimize that patient"s preventative and therapeutic care.
