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Comment author: Daniel_Burfoot 19 February 2010 03:22:13PM 3 points [-]

What I'd really love to see is much cheaper and faster chemical/bio assays, something like a blood glucose monitor that could read out hormone levels, vitamin levels, hematocrit, etc. Something easy enough for millions of people to adopt and commit to on a daily basis.

Yes, this is a beautiful vision. This would be a whole new way of doing medical science.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 13 May 2012 09:15:42PM 1 point [-]

I'd love to see a lot more study of healthy people. I'm not convinced that what constitutes improvement in the factors that get measured is well understood.