personalized medicine
noun
: a branch of medicine concerned with developing therapies targeted to individuals or particular groups based on their unique genetic, molecular, or phenotypic characteristics : precision medicine
In precision medicine (sometimes called personalized medicine), researchers work to identify the genetic factors that drive or contribute to a disease and build medicines that target the downstream effects of those miscreant genes.—Melissa Healy
The president referred not to personalized medicine but to "precision medicine," a term given profile by a recent publication from the National Research Council, in which the authors explain that their use of "precision" was intended to avoid the implication that medications would be synthesized personally for single patients.—Euan A. Ashley
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