pimg class=”alignright” title=”Too Much Information!” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202011/tmi2.jpg” alt=”tmi2″ width=”286″ height=”288″ /A couple weeks back, the LA Times a title=”Geneticist’s ‘personalized medicine’ study focuses on himself” href=”http://www.latimes.com/health/la-sci-personalized-medicine-20120317,0,7998981.story” target=”_blank”published a piece/a on a geneticist#8217;s experience with #8220;personalized medicine.#8221; Based on careful and constant monitoring of his sequenced DNA and around 40,000 health markers #8211; or #8220;omics#8221; #8211; over 14 months by a team of his colleagues, Stanford geneticist Michael Snyder observed in painstaking detail exactly what his body was doing during periods of sickness and health. If and when a viral infection entered the picture, Snyder and his team could watch how thousands of biomarkers responded. He could track its invasion, his body#8217;s battle against it, and its eventual retreat. Although Snyder had no family history of diabetes, his sequenced DNA revealed he was at risk for it, so he began monitoring his blood sugar. Sure enough, a couple weeks after the viral infection, […]
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