New molecular biomarkers at post-genomics era

Magic technologies and smart biomarkers at the Omics Age！ This slogan is not only for the pharmaceutical companies as the speedy and cost-reduced development of global drug, but for all of the toxicologists and biologist. Biomarker refers to a variety of physiologic, pathologic, or anatomic measurements that are thought to relate to some aspect of normal or pathological processes (Temple 1995; Lesko and Atkinson 2001).(omitted)