With a new center, All of Us tackles health data silos to power precision medicine
Over the past five years, two unique federal efforts have collected the health records of…
Category: precision medicine
STAT+: BioNTech CEO lays out vision for how mRNA and AI can power personalized medicine
SAN FRANCISCO — When BioNTech was founded in 2008, messenger RNA therapies and vaccines were…
Opinion: Inconsistent clinical practices thwart wider use of personalized medicine
The promise of personalized medicine — safer and more effective treatments tailored to each individual’s…
Opinion: A better understanding of human diversity is needed to equitably advance precision medicine
Precision medicine — tailoring a treatment to an individual’s disease — requires understanding the individual’s…
Opinion: Personalized medicine goes far beyond genetics
Since the Human Genome Project was completed in 2003, most public considerations of personalized medicine…
STAT+: ‘We shouldn’t leave anybody behind’: Inequities in cancer genomics undercut promise of precision medicine
Translating the promise of cancer genomics into health equity has not yet become a reality,…
STAT Plus: Foundation Medicine wins FDA approval for first liquid biopsy able to detect multiple cancers
The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved the first comprehensive “liquid biopsy” platform that…
STAT Plus: Turning Point releases positive data for targeted cancer drug, points to more rapid FDA filing
Turning Point Therapeutics, a San Diego developer of targeted cancer drugs, released positive data Wednesday…
Deaths from the most common lung cancer are falling fast, hinting at the impact of improved treatment
For the most common type of lung cancer in Americans, deaths are falling faster than…
STAT Plus: New findings about little-studied cellular compartments could help make chemo more effective
Getting the right drug to the right place at the right time has been the…
STAT Plus: Recapping ASCO 2020, talking cancer therapy combinations, and looking to the future
Before it even started, ASCO 2020 was one for the books. Held virtually for the…
STAT Plus: Startup Spotlight: Aiming to speed precision cancer therapies to children
For some children with a certain type of brain tumor, treatment can mean surgery followed…
Opinion: Precision medicine: course correction urgently needed
An undeclared civil war is breaking out in biomedicine. On one side is precision medicine, with…
Opinion: We need better regulation of stem cell therapies, especially rogue clinics
Rogue stem cell clinics continue to victimize hopeful patients seeking cures for cancer, Parkinson’s disease,…
Opinion: Precision medicine has a blind spot: children with cancer
Cancer, once a terrifying black box, is slowly being opened up. Thanks to advances in…
Opinion: To make advanced therapies, we need to industrialize personalization
What’s the best way to measure the real rate of progress in personalized cell therapies,…