Is personalised medicine a triumph of hype over hope?

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English - October 29, 2019 09:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 40 ratings
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Would you pay thousands of dollars to get your DNA profile, in the hope of getting personalised medical treatment? Two decades after the human genome was sequenced, conventional medicine is still more successful and cheaper.