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Detective work on drug dosage

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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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  1. Richard M. Crooks is in the Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712-1224, USA.,

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