But in practice: personalized medicine is impossible to tests. We rely upon giving tens of thousands of volunteers medicine ahead-of-time to prove if medicine is safe.
While the technology theoretically exists to make and distribute personalized medicine, the ethics and safety questions of doing so remain unanswered.
Personalized medicine has been tested for years in clinical trials. Trials require tens -- not tens-of-thousands -- of volunteers.
Personalized therapies are being used to treat cancer patients right now, and using machine learning to find the right binding site for a particular patient's tumor should present no more ethical questions than giving them NSAIDs.
But in practice: personalized medicine is impossible to tests. We rely upon giving tens of thousands of volunteers medicine ahead-of-time to prove if medicine is safe.
While the technology theoretically exists to make and distribute personalized medicine, the ethics and safety questions of doing so remain unanswered.