In my speeches I very often talk about personalized medicine as a showcase of an unavoidable future. After all it makes sense, no? Instead of prescribing medicines based on the average result they have on a test group (with many failures as a result), personalized medicines could provide patients with exactly what they need in order to cure. Result? More effective health care. Ah, and let's not forget: cost reductions!
But the real key to making this happen is DNA profiling, or, to be more precise: genome sequencing. As far as I know this can be done relatively easily and at a rapidly declining cost. What I didn't know was that the idea of using genome sequencing in health care provisioning still needs some way to get adopted by the health care providers in the first place!
This brilliant -and entertaining, even for those like me who understand very little about DNA and medicine-speech explains you why that is, and why genome sequencing should be used in the future:
