Journal of Free Speech Law: “Freedom of the Test,” by Prof. Alex Tabarrok
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At-home testing—DNA testing, for example—is one of those personalized medicine advances that would have been unthinkable not too long ago. DNA tests can tell us about our ancestry, which diseases we may be especially prone to, and which drugs might work especially well or poorly for our body.
Personalized medicine can adjust medications not only to DNA which is unchanging but also to the dynamic response of RNA, proteins, and metabolites. Chen et al. describe how a patient was treated via a “personal omics profile (iPOP), an analysis that combines genomic, transcriptomic, proteomic, metabolomic, and autoantibody profiles from a single individual over a 14-month period.” Studies like this point to a future in which we will be able to measu
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