Your genes affect your reaction to drugs
Your doctor prescribes a medication. If you have a high risk of negative side effects, do you ask for something else instead? If you know the drug won’t work well for you, do you request more options?These questions aren’t just hypothetical. They’re at the heart of pharmacogenomics.Pharmacogenomics is the study of how your genes affect your response to drugs. If you have... READ MORE
Scientists grow ‘organoids’ for research
Dr. Sergiu Pasca, a neuroscientist, used to envy cancer specialists. They could get their hands on tumors for research, while Pasca could not directly study key portions of a living brain.But these days, Pasca does the next best thing: He grows his own.In his lab at Stanford University, thousands of whitish balls of human brain tissue float in hundreds of dishes. Each smaller than a pea,... READ MORE
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