Marcus Marritt New advances in medical research could transform such techniques as gene therapy and liquid biopsy from futuristic hypotheses to everyday procedures; robot-assisted surgery is now a reality, and getting more sophisticated by the day. Yet, the change is not going to stop anytime soon—if anything, much more is to come. While existing technologies are evolving at a breakneck pace, new trends and tools are appearing that have the potential to reshape healthcare in radical ways. Take the rise of personal genomics: as technologies to sequence DNA become cheaper and more accessible to the wider public, patients are going to be increasingly empowered.