Medications
Does our gut bacteria alter the effectiveness of drug treatments?
Prescribing the best medication may require going with a patient’s gut — or at least, the bacteria that live there ...
Using genetic tests to tailor antipsychotic treatments to individual patients
Scientists are tapping individuals’ genetic profiles to learn which patients will respond to antipsychotic medication for schizophrenia. The pursuit is ...
‘Body on a chip’ could revolutionize drug research, replace animal testing
Bringing a new drug to market takes roughly a decade and requires expensive and arduous testing on humans and animals. But a ...
Asians finally have drugs ‘perfectly tailored’ to their genetics
For decades, much of the pipeline of medical innovation has flowed from West to East. Now a string of companies ...
