DNA, RNA and the Coming Reality of Personalized Medicine

Medicine has always been a science of averages. Most people in the population tend to suffer from most of the same diseases, and most of…

Medicine has always been a science of averages. Most people in the population tend to suffer from most of the same diseases, and most of those diseases respond to most of the same treatments. If one therapy doesn’t work, doctors always have other drugs and other treatments they can try to handle individual cases that don’t fit the mold.

But it has never …