Sunday, May 3, 2015

Your Genome Map Breakthrough Needs Freedom

An exciting breakthrough in mapping your genome now needs freedom to reach its potential:

What in our genes causes us to have arthritis, diabetes or a cancer that doesn’t respond to treatment? To uncover the answers in the 6 billion bases of DNA that make up the human genome requires sequencing populations.
“If you have 10,000 people with Alzheimer’s and 10,000 people who never showed signs of the disease, the idea is that you could sequence both those groups and learn something about Alzheimer’s,” Wilson explained. “Because every human is different from every other human, you can’t do that with just five people with Alzheimer’s and five people without. You won’t have enough data to pinpoint the differences.”

A decade ago they adapted the dot matrix printer to do 10,000 medical micro-experiments in the time it took to do one.

Right now medicine is in lockdown in the USA, with the FDA owned by BigPharm.   They will want to keep a lid on this and continue their control of medicine, as the phone companies once kept control on communication.

Figuring out fast what ails you also informs doctors of exactly the precise dosage and combination of chemicals to help you.  And if you allow your records to go public on some "google doc" countless researchers will achieve validity and reliability (science) on what is working and what is not.

This breaks the nonsense argument it takes billions to create a medicine thus we need patents to help BigPharm recover its investment.

Today compounding pharmacies, the local drug stores that can make up your drugs to prescription on the spot will do very well making up the medicines your doctor designs based on your genome, and informed by the free market science out there...

Imagine...

Crowd source studies

Crowd sourced funding

Crowd sourced refereeing

open-sourced science

the mid boggles at the implications...

If we want to see an economic expansion as great if not greater (is not health more important than tweeting?) than the internet revolution, then we need to deregulate medicine that way we deregulated telephony in 1980.  That would do it.

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