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How ‘digitizing you and me’ could revolutionize medicine. At least in theory

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How ‘digitizing you and me’ could revolutionize medicine. At least in theory

There’s a whole lot of hype around precision medicine.

Proponents — up to and including President Barack Obama — predict a revolution that will bring us medical treatments as precisely tailored as a bespoke suit: Drug doses adjusted to your genome. Chemotherapy customized to your tumor’s DNA. Diets adapted perfectly to your risk for diabetes.

To propel research, Obama has proposed spending a $215 million on a Precision Medicine Initiative. The first step: Rally 1 million volunteers (or even more) to give up a slew of intimate details about their health, medical history, diet, lifestyle, genetics — and even the granular details of the bacteria that line their guts.

The Human Chip Program

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One of the computer chips that can replicate all human vital biological systems is illuminated in a microscope at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory inOne of the computer chips that can replicate all human vital biological systems is illuminated in a microscope at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in

One of the computer chips that can replicate all human vital biological systems is illuminated in a microscope at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif., on Friday, July 8, 2016. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s “Human on a Chip” research is experimenting with technology that replicates all human vital biological systems. The chip could mean the end of animal testing for drugs and household products

PREPARING FOR PANDEMICS

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During the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, as many as 100 million people died — up to 5 percent of the world’s population. If a similar outbreak were to happen today, the death toll could reach 360 million, despite the availability of vaccines as well as modern antiviral and antibacterial drugs. The economic impact would also be devastating, resulting in a $3 trillion economic loss, or nearly 5 percent of global GDP.

Bill Gates Calls U.S. Drug Pricing System ‘Better Than Most’

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Billionaire Bill Gates, whose foundation seeks to spread modern medicine through the developing world and wipe out diseases of the poor such as malaria, said he supports the U.S. drug pricing system even as politicians have intensified their criticism of high costs.

“The current system is better than most other systems one can imagine,” Gates said in an interview on Bloomberg Television. “The drug companies are turning out miracles, and we need their R&D budgets to stay strong. They need to see the opportunity.”