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Precision medicine tailors therapeutics to ­individual ­patients’ diseases, and is seen as the future of clinical practice. With significant time and ­financial investments ­being made in developing therapeutics, the ultimate success of ­patient-data driven precision ­therapies hinges on three main factors: the quality of the tissue samples, the associated molecular data, and the analysis used in their development.

“It’s obvious that the overall healthcare market will continue to grow. And photonics technology – which delivers a number of unique capabilities, like non-invasive or non-contact probing at high spatial resolution – is poised to play an ever-increasing role in this field.”