Precision medicine seeks to identify and classify individual patients so that optimal treatment decisions can be made. Nations are recognizing this area of research by developing national cohorts from ...

Precision medicine trials constitute a precious source of molecular data with prospective clinical annotations allowing the exploration of patients’ subpopulations according to specific clinical or ...

Ivacaftor, the first drug that targeted the underlying defect of cystic fibrosis (CF), which affects about 30,000 people in the United States, improved outcomes and reduced hospitalizations, according ...

What is the difference between precision medicine and personalized medicine? Precision medicine is a more exact term for the targeted healthcare individualization of sub-populations. We are talking ...

Imagine being told that everyone needs to wear one specific pair of low-riding jeans at all times regardless of their age, body configuration, surroundings, or life situation. This could leave you ...

Precision medicine has been discussed for decades, especially in the field of oncology. Precision medicine is an approach to disease prevention and treatment that accounts for variability in the genes ...

Powerful new technologies have the potential to radically transform both science and society. In science, as Douglas Robertson describes in Phase Change (2003), a new technology like the microscope, ...

At SAP Leonardo Live last month, the most interesting presentation was by Cristiano Buss, the CIO of Stara S/A. Stara is a Brazilian manufacturer of farm equipment. The company has gone through two ...