Matching drugs to DNA is ‘new era of medicine’
Testing can predict if drugs will work, fail or become deadly, depending on differences in our make-up. …
Jane’s experience may sound rare, but Prof Mark Caulfield, the president-elect of the British Pharmacological Society, said “99.5% of us have at least one change in our genome that, if we come across the wrong medicine, it will either not work or it will actually cause harm.”