Systems biology is beginning to make an important contribution to personalized medicine. New discoveries about the molecular networks and cellular pathways in cancer cells will provide clinicians with essential information about an individual patient's biological state that will guide them toward the most appropriate drug or combination of drugs for use in their treatment. Read More
Human cells are a minority in their own body, outnumbered 10 to one by cells of the microbiome, commensal microorganisms. "Ninety percent of the DNA that we're carrying around is bacterial," Peter DiLaura told BioWorld Insight, with some viruses and fungi thrown in for good measure. Read More
Before he died of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2005, Nobel Prize-winning chemist and nanotech pioneer Richard Smalley said, "Twenty years from now, nanoscale missiles will target cancer cells in the human body and leave everything else blissfully alone." That quote provided an introduction to a session at BIO 2012 that examined how nanotechnology had evolved since Smalley's statement more than a decade ago. Read More
