Personalized Medicine – Multimedia

Bioengineers at EPFL have created miniature intestines in a dish that match up anatomically and functionally to the real thing better than any other lab-grown tissue models.

In this episode, we discuss the potential of personalized, precision approaches to change healthcare. We hear how cancer care has been one of the first areas to take advantage of patient-specific data, the risks and rewards of increased access to genomic data and how neuroscience is beginning to explore diseases of the brain at a personal level.

In this episode, the Technology Networks team discusses the community of bacteria that have made our bodies their home: the microbiome.

Download this eBook to discover more about organoids, including how they are paving the way to personalized medicine, novel materials methods for their generation and approaches to their analysis.

In this infographic, we explore the field of pharmacogenomics. How can genes impact both the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of a therapeutic? What are some specific examples of compounds that elicit different effects in different people based on their genome?

This list features some of our favorite coverage of personalized medicine in 2019 published by Technology Networks.

2019 has been an exciting year for the proteomics community at Technology Networks. As the year draws to a close, we're reflecting on some of the key insights we have gained.

The aim of personalized medicine is to a move away from the traditional “one size fits all” approach to the treatment of diseases – such as cancer. For patients where standard clinical options have been exhausted, novel personalized therapeutics may be required. Patient-derived cancer models, such as “organoids”, can help predict an individual’s response to a drug – both efficacy and toxicity – prior to administration.

Clinical trials are underway to examine the efficacy of various immune checkpoint inhibitor molecules, for the treatment of cancer. Watch this video to learn about the companion diagnostics that are enabling the identification of patients who could benefit from these treatments.

What is personalized medicine (PM) and why do we need it? Download this infographic to learn about PM, a movement with the potential to help match patients to therapies far more efficiently than the current “trial and error” approach.