Basic Medicine:Secrets of the Sequence(30)
For the drug industry, it is an especially lengthy and expensive process and they say it is the major reason drugs cost so much. Regardless of the cost of research and development, whether from a government funded lab or the private sector people will pay the money to feel better and live longer. So it spawned a tongue-twister named pharmacogenomics. That pharmacogenomics is the study of how an individual's genetic inheritance affects the body's response to drugs. Creating individualized drugs is the ultimate goal.
- Added:2006
- Country:America
- Duration:30
- Time of update:2011/8/29 9:48:41