Precision Medicine: Crowdsourced Treatment For Individual Genetic Profiles

• Brittany Corners
• Dec 17, 2015

Imagine you enter a hospital with a specific set of symptoms. Your caregiver takes your standard baseline temperature and blood pressure measurements, then takes a quick, non-invasive biologic sample. A few minutes later, he or she returns with a treatment plan backed by data compiled via hundreds of thousands of clinical-trial participants whose profiles are…