Precision medicine, or personalized medicine, is a new area of medical treatment and health care exactly tailored to the patient’s specific requirements. Genetic testing leads this list and enables doctors to determine the genetic variation most likely to be responsible for an individual’s medical condition and accordingly target treatment precisely and effectively. This is a teaching guide that will discuss ...

Family planning remains a very personal and private decision that relates to when to have children, how the children will be born, and, in most cases, being healthy for both parents and future generations. Genetics helps an individual or couple to come up with decisions on what will be the best thing to carry out on reproduction as time progresses. ...

Quantum development in the science of human life took place in the past decades. Among those, the sequencing of genomes stands at the forefront as an advanced tool by which one would gain access to the fullest blueprint concerning the scheme regarding human life. That very subject revolutionised medicine and ancestry research into genetic instructions encoded within the strands of ...

The new paradigm shift, personal medicine, takes a storm in the world of health care. Just imagine being treated by the doctor with therapy pinpointed only to suit your particular genetic makeup; treatments can be that effective while minimizing potential side effects. Sounds like the script of some sci-fi movie? The future is now well and truly here to make ...