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Toward theragnostics.
Critical care medicine - 1 Jan 2009
Pene Frédéric, Courtine Emilie, Cariou Alain, Mira Jean-Paul
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Theragnostics is a treatment strategy that combines therapeutics with diagnostics. It associates both a diagnostic test that identifies patients most likely to be helped or harmed by a new medication, and targeted drug therapy based on the test results. Bioinformatics, genomics, proteomics, and functional genomics are molecular biology tools essential for the progress of molecular theragnostics. These tools...
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