Personalized medicine: Time for one-person trials | Nature Skip to main content Thank you for
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Personalized medicine aims to match individuals with the therapy that is best suited to them
and their condition. Advocates proclaim the potential of this approach to improve treatment …

The announcement by President Obama of a precision medicine initiative created
excitement in the medical community. The president referred not to personalized medicine …

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The article discusses the ways to save clinical trials as they are crumbling under economic
and scientific pressures. Researchers and patient advocates take a page from organizations …

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In 2009, Wisconsin clinicians sequenced all the protein-coding DNA of a very ill 4-yearold
boy named Nicholas Volker. They used the results to pinpoint a gene mutation at the root of …

Major investments in basic science have created an opportunity for significant progress in
clinical medicine. Researchers have discovered hundreds of genes that harbor variations …

Personalized medicine is the tailoring of therapies to defined subsets of patients based on
their likelihood to respond to therapy or their risk of adverse events. The advent of improved …

The sequencing of the human genome brings with it the hope that greater understanding of
genetic components of disease will allow the more specific targeting of therapies. It has also …