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April 10, 2004
Increasing returns in Biology near?
In a slightly self serving speech to the Churchill Club recently, Randy Scott, CEO of Genomic Health, laid out the recent trends driving toward: The Dawn of Personalized Medicine :: AO
He basically is confirming a trend that I have been seeing for some time around the positive feedback loop starting to take hold around the human gnome. Basically the cost of sequencing the human Gnome is following Moores law. Cost half a much and be done twice as fast every 18-24 months. In 20 years the cost will be about the same as an MRI. Tha means individuals could have it done and get out of it a completely personalized treatment plan based on their exact genetic make up and tendancies to known afflictions. Wow. That treatment plan could also involve custom designed drugs targeted to the specific DNA make up of the individual. No more broad brush medicines that "tend to work in most cases". Quite interesting...
Posted by Martin at April 10, 2004 8:10 AM
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