Technology Quarterly
Medicine gets personal
Personalised medicine
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Treatments can increasingly be tailored to the genes, environments and activities that make every patient different, says Natasha Loder
- Personalised medicine: Medicine is getting to grips with individuality
- The human genome project: Genomics took a long time to fulfil its promise
- Genes and treatment: Pharmacogenomics can show what your body makes of a drug
- Congenital disease: Congenital diseases reveal a lot about human biology
- The pharmaceutical industry: New drugs are costly and unmet need is growing
- The sum of all lives: The way people live their lives can be mined, too
- Sources and acknowledgments
Personalised medicine
Medicine is getting to grips with individuality
Treatments can increasingly be tailored to the genes, environments and activities that make every patient different, says Natasha Loder
Genes and treatment
Pharmacogenomics can show what your body makes of a drug
That provides safer, more effective prescriptions
Congenital disease
Congenital diseases reveal a lot about human biology
And some can be treated—even if there is only one patient
The pharmaceutical industry
New drugs are costly and unmet need is growing
The pharmaceutical industry needs new ways of doing things
The sum of all lives
The way people live their lives can be mined, too
But there will be setbacks and privacy problems along the way
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Technology in China
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With the state’s help, Chinese technology is booming. But it will not be a smooth road to global dominance, says Hal Hodson
- Chinese technology: With the state’s help, Chinese technology is booming
- Success stories: China’s nuclear industry and high-speed trains are world class
- Cars: China has never mastered internal-combustion engines
- Intellectual property: Chinese inventiveness shows the weakness of the law
- Data: China’s success at AI has relied on good data
- Microprocessors: China is slowly moving up the microprocessing value chain
- The future: Technological progress in China could still lead to fireworks