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Big data is all well and good, but if we want medical breakthroughs, we’ll need big theory too.
How ‘junk’ DNA threw a spanner in the works.
Personalised medicine is based on the idea that by understanding the specific molecular code of a person’s disease, and particularly its genetic makeup, we can more accurately tailor treatment.
By tampering with the machinery which allows aggressive cancer cells to adapt, we can disrupt their ecosystem.
What if you could take a simple test to reveal your individual risk of developing a range of cancers and hundreds of other diseases?
Hidden among all the other announcements in last week’s State of the Union address by US President Barack Obama was a promise to fund a new “precision medicine initiative”. The president said it would…
Personalised medicine is the ability to tailor therapy to an individual patient so that, as it’s often put, the right treatment is given to the right patient at the right time. But just how personal is…
Trillions of microbes live in and on our body. We don’t yet fully understand how these microbial ecosystems develop or the full extent to which they influence our health. Some provide essential nutrients…
Average life expectancy has nearly doubled since 1800, thanks to progress in medicine. Most of that was made by developing drugs and improving public health services. The medical revolution of the 21st…
Research published in the journal Nature overnight describes the mutations that make cancer cells grow faster than ordinary cells. These “mutational signatures” don’t just open up avenues for better cancer…
Although in use for over 50 years now, chemotherapy is a blunt instrument in the battle against cancer and one that’s based on an outdated understanding of tumour biology. Personalised treatment has been…
Shakespeare’s plays and cancer: two seemingly unrelated topics with an underlying common thread. The techniques that computational linguistics and computer scientists use to analyse the Bard’s works are…
The emerging field of personalised medicine seeks to tailor therapies to suit an individual’s metabolism or genetic make-up. This strategy has worked well with medication for specific forms of breast cancer…
Personalised medication is one of the ultimate goals of modern medicine although it’s still some way off. But the promise of gender-specific medicines means we may soon be halfway there. In its purest…
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Lecturer in Biochemistry, Murdoch University
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Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Tasmania
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Senior Lecturer in Pharmaceutical Sciences, RMIT University
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Chair Precision Medicine, Monash University
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Honorary Fellow, Department of Pathology, The University of Melbourne
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The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Genetics and Executive Director of Research, Melbourne Health
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Associate Professor of the School of Pharmacy, University of Sydney
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ARC Future Fellow and Professor in Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Newcastle
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Professor of English, University of Newcastle
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Research Assistant, University of Newcastle
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Professor, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London
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Lorenzo and Pamela Galli Chair in Developmental Medicine, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Adjunct Professsor, School of Psychology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Adelaide
