Pharmacogenomics project seeks to provide personalised drug safety profiles US researchers have announced a major study to identify genes involved in drug metabolism, with the hope of providing personalised “drug safety” profiles.…
Major bleeding risk higher for dabigatran than for warfarin, study suggests Research suggests that dabigatran is associated with a higher risk of bleeding compared with warfarin in a US population sample.…
DNA not necessarily your destiny? The role of epigenetics in pharmacy Our 2013 science series will look at the “new” pharmaceutical sciences that are emerging. Kalliopi Dodou and Paul Whiteley introduce epigenetics in this first article.…