Revolution in personalized medicine: First-ever integrative 'Omics' profile lets scientist discover, track his diabetes onset
Thursday, March 15, 2012 - 14:30
in Biology & Nature
Researchers have reached an unprecedented analysis in the field of personalized medicine. Their findings rely on collecting and analyzing billions of individual bits of data, an integrative Personal "Omics" Profile, or iPOP. "Omics" indicates the study of a body of information, such as the genome or the proteome. The iPOP can identify and predict myriad problems including diabetes, and researchers say that such dynamic monitoring will soon become commonplace.