Personalised medicine

薬 医療イメージ 

Increasingly efficient diagnostic methods enable more and more precise statements about predisposition and bodily functions. There are already companies that offer genetic tests over the internet for a few hundred dollars – all you have to do is send in a saliva sample. Theoretically, these findings should lead to a therapy that is specifically tailored to our needs in the event of an illness. In addition, such data should also serve to detect disease risks at an early stage. The study examines possibilities and consequences of this “personalised medicine”.