George Church and Personal Genome Project

Open genetic data combined with medical and phisiological information will change the way medicine works – treatments will be personalized and more effective, plus there will be new therapies created specifically for particular patiens. This will significantly improve and prolong our lives. George Church started the Personal Genome Project wich has this exact goal.

I enjoyed the Technology Review interview with Dr. Church about the future of induced pluripotent stem cells. Loved the quote:

“I’m thinking a lot about using regeneration as the key to treatments and keeping people healthy.”

TED Talk: Richard Resnick on Genomic Revolution

Massive genome sequencing holds promise for entirely changing our society. Cancer genome sequencing already proved to be effective, we’ll find out a lot about our disease risks and causes and we’ll be able to cure and prevent deleterious diseases. That all will prolong our lives. Plus we’ll be able to find all sorts of new links between our genomes and behaviour like the “cheating” gene.

TEDMED 2010 illustrated

Last week I arrived in Moscow from one of best and most inspiring conferences in the world – TEDMED. I’d love to share some pictures and exiting ideas I learned during those fascinating four days in San Diego. So, here we go.