Tailor Made Medications
The development of drugs is a very expensive project. Part of the expense is taken up in testing the
drug in humans, a procedure called "clinical trials". Since many drugs are found to have side effects
and since these side effects may only occur in humans with certain genetic characteristics,
Pharmaeceutical companies now:
Take and store samples of every patient's blood.
Do HLA testing on every patient's blood.
Do full DNA sequencing on all patients.
Go to next section.
The development of drugs is a very expensive project. Part of the expense is taken up in testing the
drug in humans, a procedure called "clinical trials". Since many drugs are found to have side effects
and since these side effects may only occur in humans with certain genetic characteristics,
Pharmaeceutical companies now:
Take and store samples of every patient's blood.
Do HLA testing on every patient's blood.
Do full DNA sequencing on all patients.
Go to next section.
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