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Pharmacotherapeutics: what a difference five decades makes!
Author(s) -
Day Richard O,
Mashford M Laurence
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2001.tb143147.x
Subject(s) - disease , human genome , biology , computational biology , computer science , medicine , genome , data science , genetics , pathology , gene
Our ability to prevent, cure or modify disease, as compared with relieving symptoms, has changed beyond recognition in the past half century. With the completion of the Human Genome Project and rapid advances in understanding of molecular biology and in technologies, our ability to target disease mechanisms and optimise an individual's responses will improve exponentially.