Predictive, Preventive and Personalized Medicine & Molecular Diagnostics

Molecular Diagnostics and Therapeutics

Molecular diagnostics is a technique used to analyze biological markers in the genome and proteome, realizing the value of personalized medicine the individual's genetic code and how their cells express their genes as proteins, by applying molecular biology to medical testing. The technique is used to diagnose and monitor disease, detect risk, and decide which therapies will work best for individual patients. Therapeutics and diagnostics are useful in a range of medical specialisms, including infectious disease, oncology, human leukocyte antigen typing (which investigates and predicts immune function), coagulation, and pharmacogenomics—the genetic prediction of which drugs will work best and even leads to translational research.