Month: January 2015
Can biorepositories support the future of personalized medicine?
January 27, 2015
If personalized medicine will ever achieve the heights it is capable of, it needs an adequate inventory of high quality biospecimens that physicians and researchers can access with ease, speed, and confidence.
Big data tool may improve accuracy of cancer diagnoses and treatments
January 8, 2015
Scientists have developed a statistical model that will potentially help diagnose and treat cancer patients based on the genomic information of individual solid tumors.
Diagnostics for autoimmune diseases need to improve
While both doctors and biopharmaceutical companies are interested in the potential of personalized medicine, the pursuit of treatments within this model has proven more productive for certain classes of diseases than others.
How do you determine if research is ‘human subjects research?’
January 7, 2015
Whether research focuses on the disease process within cells or drug discovery for more effective treatments, remnant clinical specimens or their associated data both play pivotal roles in these studies. Data show that patients agree. Specifically, 87 percent of patients believe that the donation of human biospecimens is essential, while 75 percent are willing to […]
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