Personalised Medicines & Synthetic Biology

Question 1

What are personalised medicines?

Answer 1

giving drugs to someone based on the genes they have

genome sequencing is getting faster and cheaper

if you know a patients genome, you can change the drugs you given them e.g. ppl with a rare allele may have a bad side effect reaction to a certain drug - give them an alternative drug

Question 2

What is synthetic biology?

Answer 2

designing and creating new biological molecules, systems, machines and cells

e.g. building new enzymes to make them more effective