Personalized medicine

Precision medicine

2022-01-24 — 2022-11-06

Wherein self-experimentation and DIY genetic testing are recounted, single-subject biomarker tracking is examined, and the interplay of personal narrative and experimental protocols is documented.

causality
economics
faster pussycat
fit
gene
graphical models
how do science
machine learning
mind
probability
statistics
Figure 1

C&C single-subject experiments for the methodology of self-driven n-of-1 trials, and biomarker tracking for instrumenting the body to feed either.

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