Innovationsight


The Medicine of the Near Future
July 2, 2008, 5:31 pm
Filed under: Personalized Medicine

In June 2000, Tony Blair and Bill Clinton held a joint press conference at which they announced the completion of the Human Genome projects the availability of a first draft of the genome or genetic code of the human being. This milestone, one of the greatest scientific achievements in human history, means that today our generation may well be facing a quiet revolution which will change our current understanding of medicine, ushering in what is generally known among the scientific community as personalized medicine. (more…)