Twenty One 21st Century Engineering Challenges (1-10)

By: | March 22nd, 2013

6. Engineer better medicines – people differ in their likelihood of developing a disease and their response to medicines. In fact some medicines may help one person but kill another. Better medicines means targeting a patient’s unique genome and delivering medicine only to parts of the body that are sick. Reducing the negative consequences of medicines, especially side effects, will take time but progress is already evident.

Engineering Better Medicines

David Russell Schilling

David enjoys writing about high technology and its potential to make life better for all who inhabit planet earth.

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