Future of Genomics in Healthcare Flashcards
1
Q
How is genomic data useful for Targeted therapies?
What is Cell-free DNA released from? What does its detection useful for?
What is Gene therapy?
What is Gene editing?
A
- Allows us to understand the molecular defects underlying the disease, so we can target treatment at them
- Released by Foetal and Cancer cells, so is useful for Foetal screening/diagnosis and Cancer screening/diagnosis
- Using nucleic acids as a therapeutic agent to target a genomic disease
- Changing the genome
