Customized Medicine (w/ Lauren Black) and How to Tell Someone’s Sick by Looking at Them

Lauren Black, Distinguished Scientist in the Scientific advisory services at Charles River Labs, shares the story of how doctors came up with a customized drug to treat one specific patient with Batten disease. Plus: learn about how you really can tell if someone’s sick just by looking at them.In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following story from Curiosity.com about how you really can tell someone’s sick just by looking at them: https://curiosity.im/2D6XTo8Additional sources:Drug Regulation in the Era of Individualized Therapies | The New England Journal of Medicine — https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe1911295Patient-Customized Oligonucleotide Therapy for a Rare Genetic Disease | The New England Journal of Medicine — https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1813279Amazon smart speaker users: you can listen to our podcast as part of your Amazon Alexa Flash Briefing! Just click or tap “enable” here: https://curiosity.im/podcast-flash-briefing. Find episode transcript here: https://curiosity-daily-4e53644e.simplecast.com/episodes/customized-medicine-w-lauren-black-and-how-to-tell-someones-sick-by-looking-at-them Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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