This is awfully important because it applies across the biological spectrum. Getting a genome has now become a lab procedure, not needing to organize a raft of resources.
We may have many thousands of life forms available, but we have actually only a handful that we are very interested in. This means that their genomes will be available to be worked on by their respective research communities. Cost and convenience is no longer a serious barrier.
The main event will continue to be the human genome and this is bringing us close to using it as a diagnostic tool. We have been given hints, but real delivery will be integrating millions of individual cases to shake out really obscure relationships with also obscure diseases.
I would like every doctor to act as a reliable source of data on patients so this can be statistically mined. A lot of real solutions are lying under our noses and need winkling out.
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