What Students Can Learn from Saliva (IMAGE)

Temple University

What Students Can Learn from Saliva

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The medical community is learning how to use genetic information to tailor drug regimens for patients, and so are students, by genotyping themselves. Here, second-year Pharm.D. student Regies Cyriac is introduced to pharmacogenomics. All 153 students will extract their own DNA through collected saliva samples to see how they would react to the anti-tuberculosis drug Isoniazid.

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Joseph V. Labolito/Temple University

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