Genomics and world health: Hopes and realities

Personalised medicines: hopes and realities

Hopes and realities of public health accountability policies.

Holding local boards of health accountable presents challenges related to governance and funding arrangements. These challenges result in (a) multiple accountability pressures, (b) population health outcomes whose change is measureable only over long time periods and (c) board of health activity that is often not the key immediate direct contributor to achieving desired outcomes. We examined ho...

Therapeutic vaccines: realities of today and hopes for tomorrow.

V are prophylactic in the sense that they are administered to healthy individuals to prevent a disease. Nevertheless, there is a growing trend to use vaccines to alleviate the suffering of those already with disease. Great effort is being devoted to developing therapeutic vaccines against tumors, AIDS, hepatitis B, tuberculosis, malaria, and possibly against the bacteria that cause gastric ulce...

Genomics and world health: a decade on.

Synthetic Genomics and Synthetic Biology Applications Between Hopes and Concerns

New organisms and biological systems designed to satisfy human needs are among the aims of synthetic genomics and synthetic biology. Synthetic biology seeks to model and construct biological components, functions and organisms that do not exist in nature or to redesign existing biological systems to perform new functions. Synthetic genomics, on the other hand, encompasses technologies for the g...