With your genes? Take one of these, three times a day (original) (raw)

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Truly 'personalized' medicine remains a distant goal. But researchers are now thinking about how to use genomic data to avoid prescribing drugs that may kill, or won't work. Alison Abbott reports.

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Abbott, A. With your genes? Take one of these, three times a day.Nature 425, 760–762 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/425760a

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