Showing posts with label genomics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label genomics. Show all posts

Jul 5, 2021

Andy Grove on the genomic revolution (2001)

This particular once-a-half-century change [the Internet] is due to the combination of the microprocessor and connectedness.  And the most interesting aspect is that the change hasn't nearly run its course yet.  We are likely to see layered on top of it a change of comparable significance in the area of genetics, molecular biology, and the like, which would absolutely be inconceivable without very powerful and highly connected and available computers.  The impact of that change on drug development, health care, and human life is difficult to imagine.  But is it part of the computing/connectedness change? Or should we think of it as a new change unto itself?  The reason I ask is that, if this change happens as extensively as some people think it might, the consequences could be far more important than the enabler.  Compared with directly altering life and death, computers and the Internet don't seem like such a big deal.  But without the computers and connectedness, the genetics/molecular biology stuff would never get off the ground.

~ Andy Grove, "Andy Grove's Rational Exuberance," Wired, June 1, 2001



Mar 29, 2021

Judy Mikovits on Covid vaccines

I showed solutions, which is what we're always trying to do and show a technology called “breakthrough genomics,” which this company used machine learning to look at full-length, full-genome sequences, not just proteins but looking at introns where you can see who's going to be most susceptible in the entire type one interferon pathway, who's going to be most susceptible with certain single nucleotide polymorphism in ACE2 receptors.  We can, we do have the technology to see who's susceptible from severe effects.  It will be a huge part of the population, and again, one size clearly doesn't fit all in any vaccine strategy.  But forcing a chemotherapy and a gene therapy on an entire population where millions of Americans, millions of people worldwide will die and will get these deadly diseases like ITP.  We know this.  The scientific community knows this, and not only is it being censored but our careers or our lives are being destroyed if we dare talk about this.