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Commentary: Pharmacogenomics:On the Road to 'Personalized Medicine'
Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation |
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Features
Paving the Way for Safer, More Effective Drugs, Food, and
Medical Products
The successful effort to map the human genome has set the stage
for even more technological advances in the diagnosis, treatment,
and prevention of disease.
Genomics and Personalized Medicine
Your 35,000 genes may help predict how you respond to drugs.
Proteomics: Moving Beyond the Human Genome
The genes in your body are the building blocks for an estimated
1 million to 5 million proteins. Find out how these "mini-machines" might
help treat diseases.
Graphic:
Moving From the "-OMICS" to
Systems Biology [PDF,
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The mapping of the human genome set the stage for the study
of gene expressions and protein interactions and the analysis
of huge amounts of data.
An "-OMICS" Glossary
A selection of important terms and concepts defined.
Metabolomics: Working Toward Personalized Medicine
Urine and other body fluids provide clues to how a person will
react to a drug.
Genomics and Medical Devices: A New Paradigm for Health Care
New scientific tools will help to broaden the impact of genomics
on public health.
Nanotechnology: The Scale of Things to Come
Researchers work at scales 1/1,000th the width of a human hair
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