Potential benefits of biomedicine, genomics-targeted health care to Canadians difficult to overstate
By Pierre Meulien Sep. 19, 2014
From new technologies that will enable doctors to prescribe the right medicine to the right person at the right time, to markedly enhanced cancer diagnostics, treatment and research, the transformation in health care is already in motion.
In less than two decades, genomics—the science focused on understanding the genetic makeup (encoded in DNA) of individual life forms—has transformed how biological research is performed in a range of fields across the life sciences. Today, the power and potential applications of genomics in sectors of vital importance to Canada’s economy (agri-food, forestry, fisheries and aquaculture, environment, energy, mining, health) are so diverse that the possibilities are limited only by our imaginations.
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