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Awesome.
Pie in the sky fantasizing:
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. Throw it all into a giant database along with each participant's genome for good measure. The personal insights individuals could gain by comparing their data to the entire database would probably have a much more profound effect on health than a few decades worth of drug development -- of course, the tool would be invaluable for drug development as well.
Yes, this is a beautiful vision. This would be a whole new way of doing medical science.
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.