How precision medicine is helping to change the future of healthcare

Feb 6, 2018

A tray containing cancer cells sits on an optical microscope in the Nanomedicine Lab at UCL's School of Pharmacy in London May 2, 2013. Is nanomedicine the next big thing? A growing number of top drug companies seem to think so. The ability to encapsulate potent drugs in nanoparticles measuring billionths of a metre in diameter is opening up new options for super-accurate drug delivery, increasing precision hits at the site of disease with, hopefully, fewer side effects. Photograph taken on May 2, 2013. REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett (BRITAIN - Tags: BUSINESS HEALTH SOCIETY SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY)

How precision medicine allows us to better treat and diagnose cancer and rare diseases. Image: REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett

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