Immune profiling ‘will be a revolution in medicine’
Monday, May 6, 2019 at 11:03AM A revolution in medicine is coming.
It could aid the diagnosis of diseases, guide the way patients are treated and inform the discovery of new therapies.
Immune profiling seeks to explain how our body’s own defences are affected by and are responding to disease.
At the Babraham Institute, Professor Adrian Liston is working on the translation of this technique from the laboratory to the clinic.
“The immune profile is much more powerful than genomic data, but it’s much easier to get genomic data,” he tells the Cambridge Independent. “You can take blood, send it overnight and get it sequenced off-site. We are not at that stage with immune system data.
“But the more we know about different diseases, the more we realise there are inflammatory, or immune-mediated, components.
“It can be a revolution in medicine. Once the infrastructure is set up and hospitals are doing the analysis routinely, we will see an explosion in utility. Right now, it’s a research tool only.”
Read the full article at the Cambridge Independent
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