Friday, January 3, 2014

DNA sequencer raises doctors' hopes for personalized medicine

The device could accelerate the use of genetic information in everyday medical care, physicians hope, improving diagnoses and treatments.



Among the many stents, surgical clamps, pumps and other medical devices that have recently come before the Food and Drug Administration for clearance, none has excited the widespread hopes of physicians and researchers like a machine called the Illumina MiSeqDx.



via L.A. Times - Science http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/news/science/~3/ZJX7KqasN7E/la-sci-personalized-medicine-20140104,0,436970.story

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