Zitat des Tages von Leroy Hood:
If you look at healthcare today, it's all about disease. It's not about understanding wellness at all.
I think the real problem is it's easy to persuade young kids of particular kinds of ideas, because they are flexible.
What is unique about humans is their individuality.
An important finding is that by determining the genome sequences of an entire family, one can identify many DNA sequencing errors and thus greatly increase the accuracy of the data. This will ultimately help us understand the role of genetic variations in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease.
Many nonprofits rely on grants alone.
The major thing is to view biology as an information science.
Medicine will be personalized and preventive: Your genome might predict that you have an 80 percent chance of breast cancer by the time you are 50, but if you take a preventive drug starting when you are 40, the chance will drop to 2 percent.
The Human Genome Project has given us a genetic parts list.
Cloning interferon was not something I wanted to get into.
In the end, what counts is what you do.
Breast cancer isn't one disease - it's probably four or five different types, and without knowing what type a person has, you can't optimize treatment for them.
All of the details that most of us memorize in medical school - you don't have to learn those things. They're going to be in your computer.
I didn't want my genome to be sequenced by any of the companies that were out there doing the partial sequences just from the point of view of commercialisation.
Your genome sequence will become a vital part of your medical record, thereby providing critical information about how to optimize your wellness.
To manipulate the immune system, you need to find the key bottlenecks that govern the system. The T-cell is an absolute bottleneck.
My own view about knowledge is we're always better to have knowledge.
