Changing Sick Care To Health Care With A Simple Blood Test, Quanterix Reveals

There’s a lot of talk these days about the use of genomics and proteomics to develop personalized clinical treatments and improve the quality of our lives. At a high level, genomics is essentially the study of a person’s genome and the use of its genes. Proteomics is the study of the full set of proteins encoded by a genome. Interesting … but, why should you care?

Genomics testing gives us the ability to detect DNA associated with certain disease types, but that testing doesn’t show if a particular disease is active in the body. Thus, these tests can tell us about what might happen to us and potentially what our risks are, but they can’t tell us what is happening to us at a given time.

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