Title: Genome movement and pediatric-adolescent gynecology: "genomic techniques".

POPLINE Document Number: 299954

Author(s):

McDonough PG

Source citation:

Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology, 2002 Jun;15(3):123-134.

Abstract:

The "Big Tools" for science generated in the wake of the Human Genome Project allow one to carry out large-scale, global experiments of all types. Instead of dissecting a process piece by piece or gene by gene to identify a putative single effector, the more subtle analyses based on monitoring the expression of a single cell, a single tissue, or the entire genome can be performed. Scientific investigation is gradually moving from the laboratory bench to the computer station. In the future, comprehensive genomics-based health care will be standard, and individualized preventive medicine will be available. Medicine is no longer only for the sick. This "genome perspective" is likely to characterize many areas of biomedical research and clinical care on an accelerating scale. The purpose of this presentation is to discuss the uses of this global view of biology, and to review the potential impact of these technical developments on scientific investigation and clinical medicine in the decades to come. (excerpt)

Keywords:

United States
Critique
Recommendations
Genetic Technics
Adolescents, Female
Child, Female
Genetics
Gynecology
Preventive Medicine
Computers
Chromosome Abnormalities
Proteins
North America
Americas
Developed Countries
Laboratory Examinations and Diagnoses
Examinations and Diagnoses
Medical Procedures
Medicine
Health Services
Delivery of Health Care
Health
Adolescents
Youth
Age Factors
Population Characteristics
Demographic Factors
Population
Child
Biology
Information Processing
Information
Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities
Diseases
Physiology