Paving the Way to Personalized Genomic Medicine: Steps to Successful Implementation

BioMiner: Paving the Way for Personalized Medicine

Personalized medicine is promising a revolution for medicine and human biology in the 21st century. The scientific foundation for this revolution is accomplished by analyzing biological high-throughput data sets from genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics. Currently, access to these data has been limited to either rather simple Web-based tools, which do not grant much insight o...

Personalized genomic medicine: the way to future health?

Paving the way to metastasis

Tumors must invade lymph nodes to become metastatic, but how the tumor cells make this trip is not completely clear. On page 1089, Hirakawa and colleagues show that a tumor-derived growth factor stimulates the formation of new lymphatic vessels in the nearby lymph node, even before any tumor cells arrive. This suggests that the tumor may instruct the lymph node to prepare for its arrival. Stimu...

Personalized Immunology in Cancer: Paving the Way Towards a Better Quality of Life

Conventionally, in specific diseases, patients receive similar therapies; relying on a "one size fits all" approach. The discovery of P5 (Predictive, Preventive, Personalized, Participatory, and psycho-cognitive) improves personalized diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis. Considering the high prevalence, mortality rate, and complexity of cancers, there is a critical necessity to choose specific ...

Paving the way for academic medicine.

The current executive body of Nepal Medical Association (NMA) has realized the need of having an editorial board with experts in the fi eld of scientifi c writing and critical appraisal. Accordingly, Journal of Nepal Medical Association (JNMA) has formed a new editorial board. It will uplift the quality of journal and its contents in terms of authenticity and reliability. All of the editors hav...