Medical News Today -- Informatics is the foundation of research into biomedicine and nanomedicine. In the future, explained Peter Ghazal, Chair of Edinburgh University’s Department of Molecular Genetics and Biomedicine, biological sensors, the product of the integration of biology and electronics will be used to detect infections and prescribe personalized treatments. He was speaking at the International Symposium on Research in Grid/Nano/Bio/Medical Informatics (Bioinforsalud 2009), held at Madrid last month.