LEXICON
No.120 July 18, 2012

Companion diagnostics (CoDx)
コンパニオン診断薬
Personalized medicine; tailor-made medicine; custom-made medicine
個別化医療
Molecular-targeted drugs
分子標的医薬品

Progress in life science has made it possible to select treatments and drugs that are most suitable for each patient (personalized medicine, tailor-made or custom-made medicine; 個別化医療) by determining biomarkers (バイオマーカー) related to genes and proteins in individual patients. With...

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