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2018Biotechnology Journal

Are We There Yet? How and When Specific Biotechnologies Will Improve Human Health

O’Day, Elizabeth, Hosta‐Rigau, Leticia, Oyarzún, Diego A., Okano, Hideyuki, Lorenzo, Vı́ctor de, Kameke, Conrad von, Alsafar, Habiba, Cao, Cong, Chen, Guo‐Qiang, Ji, Weizhi, Roberts, Richard J., Ronaghi, Mostafa, Yeung, Karen, Zhang, Feng, and Lee, Sang Yup

Abstract

Patient X: A 67-year-old Caucasian man slips on a patch of ice. He has abrasions to his hands and has sustained significant damage to his hip. At the emergency room, he informs clinicians he takes atorvastatin, metformin, and glimepiride to treat hypertension and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM). X-rays reveal a fractured hip, which will require total hip replacement surgery.

Keywords

Computational biologyHuman healthData scienceBiologyComputer scienceMedicineEnvironmental health
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