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Personalising whole genome sequencing doubles diagnosis of rare diseases 

Drug Discovery World

Receiving a genetic diagnosis is important as it allows patients to receive access to family planning, specialised IVF, and drugs trials. It can also permit targeted screening of known disease complications and access to drug studies. This personalised approach increased the diagnostic rate from 16.7% of patients. .

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Predictive diagnostics: closing the precision medicine gap

Drug Discovery World

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.