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"Its a great day when you find a piece of clothing that fits perfectly. A good
shirt, the right pair of shoes or a well-cut dress is comfortable, looks nice
and feels like it was made just for you. Now imagine a world where every shirt
was the same size, every shoe was the same design and there weren’t even
differences between the cut of men’s and women’s clothing. Getting dressed in
the morning would be clunky, and clothes would be uncomfortable. In other
words, one size does not fit all.
Yet, this lack of bespoke options is more or less the reality of medicine
today. Despite the many biological differences between people of different
genders, races, ages and life histories, chances are that if two people walk
into a doctor’s office with the same symptoms, they are going to get roughly
the same treatment. As you can imagine, a whole range of treatments – from
drugs to testing – could be much more effective if they were designed to work
with many different kinds of bodies, not just some abstract, generic human.
In this episode of
The Conversation Weekly podcast, we speak to three
researchers who are looking at ways to make medicine better suited to you. It
starts with simply making sure that clinical trial participants look like the
actual population of patients a drug is meant to treat. And as we explore in
this episode, in the future, precision medicine could help each person get
medical care that is tailored to their own biology, just like a custom shirt."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
