I’m exploring Personalized Medicine with The Knowledge Society (TKS), and I’ll be sharing it all on here as well as my blog which you can find in my profile.
How is personalized medicine being implemented? For treating cancer, we are utilizing the T-cells in our immune system by altering the ones that have come in contact with cancer, making them bigger in numbers, for a more overwhelming effect on attacking cancer. The faster we can make more T-cells come in contact with a disease, the more effective and efficient will we be able to eradicate it. We are also reversing the aging of T-cells by injecting parts of younger cells, like T-cell receptors, into older ones to make them more efficient again.
Pharmacogenomics is utilizing your genome to determine the exact types of medications and prescriptions for you. You can determine your reaction rate to medicines (like the retain scale I mentioned in my last post), the kinds of symptoms you may get when taking those prescriptions, and the likelihood of it being effective. By determining those factors, we can make prescriptions and medicines have a higher efficient and effective success rate.
MRNA vaccines are utilized by teaching cells how to make a protein that triggers a response when the immune system is affected. This works by giving those cells harmless sizes of the disease needing to be targeted so they can learn and develop the required proteins more efficiently.
The same kinds of technologies and advancements can be used in fields like cardiology, autoimmune diseases, mental health, and so much more. The possibilities of personalization of medications are becoming clearer and within reach the more we take time to understand and to research the what-ifs and why’s of personalized medicine.
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