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Personalising whole genome sequencing doubles diagnosis of rare diseases 

Drug Discovery World

They subsequently applied additional bioinformatic approaches, using advanced computer technologies to identify genetic alterations in a patients’ DNA which may be causing disease but had been overlooked during routine testing. . It can also permit targeted screening of known disease complications and access to drug studies.

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Predictive diagnostics: closing the precision medicine gap

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In pursuit of this, the number of new therapeutics in development has boomed. In the cancer space alone over the last five years, clinical trials have increased 500% for new drugs and new drug combinations. Before drugs make it to market they have to pass through a gauntlet of stages involved in clinical trials.