The state of California is launching a US$3-million precision-medicine project. The effort will draw on vast amounts of data from basic research, medical records and other information to develop more-targeted therapies and diagnostics and inform decisions about individual patient care. Isaac Kohane, co-director of the Center for Biomedical Informatics and Lawrence J. Henderson Professor of Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital, is quoted.
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