Patients differ in their requirement for, and response to, various drug doses. A general platform that allows continuous monitoring of drug levels in the blood of rats may open the door to patient-specific dosing.
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Crooks, R. Detective work on drug dosage. Nature 505, 165–166 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/505165a
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