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Personalized Medicine
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Value of Genomics and Personalized Medicine Is Wrongly Downplayed
UCSF researchers pushing back against a widely-reported study claiming DNA's power to predict illness is limited — arguing that the value of genomics for personalized medicine is being systematically underestimated. A 2012 snapshot of a debate that's still ongoing.
Why We Haven't Cured Cancer: Personalized Medicine vs. Evolution
Science-Based Medicine's argument for why personalized medicine is harder than it looks: tumors are genetically heterogeneous mosaics that evolve under treatment pressure, so targeting a single mutation is like targeting one soldier in an army that reproduces faster than you can shoot. The evolutionary biology of cancer makes resistance nearly inevitable.