There is the need for further defining the term precision medicine due to lack of its authoritative or official definition. After head-to-head comparison of all existing terms and their definitions, the term precision medicine is more frequently used in basic and clinical medicine, because it may best reflect the whole profile of all relevant terms, with something new or different from others. ...

Despite the development of genomic research on common cardiovascular diseases, genetic variants and/or loci shown to be disease associated have been seldom applied to risk prediction in a clinical setting, although they could provide us with novel mechanistic insights into the pathophysiology and potential therapeutic targets. Here, we discuss the significance and limitations of the up-todate g...

he problem is that human biology and disease are far too complex to ever be described with total precision. The same is true for that most precise of the sciences, physics. I doubt that we will ever completely understand the real world. Only God is supposed to be able to do that. Human knowledge is fractal: the more you know about any subject, the more questions arise. That’s why the best scien...