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Inside Health

Personalised Medicine: Dose By Design

Inside Health

BBC

Health & Fitness, Science

4.4575 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2016

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Vivienne Parry asks if the NHS can deliver the benefits of genomic medicine for all

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0:00.0

Hello, I'm Greg Jenna and good news, Your Dead to Me is back for a new series. Here we go. Yes, we'll explore Emperor Nero's notorious reign with Professor Marybeard and Patton Oswald. I would not want my daughter having the remote control, not alone an empire. We'll dissect the decadent life of Philippe Duke-Dor-Leon with Tom Allen. I've often tried to pretend I'm an aristocrat and being very quickly knocked down.

0:23.0

And there'll be so much more with comedians like Olga Koch, Mike Mosniak and Ria Elena.

0:26.9

I'm excited.

0:27.6

You're dead to me, the comedy podcast that takes history seriously.

0:30.9

Listen first on BBC Sounds.

0:33.5

You are listening to a program from BBC Radio 4.

0:37.4

More than a thousand researchers across six nations have revealed nearly all three billion letters of our miraculous genetic code.

0:45.4

With this profound new knowledge, humankind is on the verge of gaining immense new power to heal.

0:50.5

I believe that today's announcement is such a breakthrough.

0:55.0

A breakthrough that opens the way for massive advances in the treatment of cancer and hereditary diseases.

1:03.0

And that is only the beginning.

1:05.0

When that first draft sequence of the human genome was announced in 2000,

1:10.0

like many others, I reported

1:12.3

that it would change medicine forever. But then it all went quiet. Actually, it was a watershed

1:19.8

moment, but it's taken 15 years for its promise to be realised. It's ushered in the era of

1:27.3

personalised medicine. And if you think that

1:30.1

this dose-by-design style of medicine is fancy-pants stuff, not likely to be seen for decades in

1:36.1

your neck of the wood, you'd be wrong. It's already happening. I'm absolutely convinced 100%

1:43.1

that if those genius people in Exeter hadn't found this genetic mutation

1:50.6

and Jack hadn't been treated properly that he would be dead.

1:54.0

There's no doubt that the way we treat lung cancer now has been totally revolutionised over the past 20 years

1:59.3

and there's no doubt that many of my

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