Genomics

Enhancing human capabilities has been on the mind of people for ages, but superhumans came a long way from ancient training methods to exoskeletons.

AI for medical use, cloud services for healthcare practices, apps for research – Google is everywhere in the digital health field. But the competition is fierce, and the race is still wide open.

We listed devices and technologies with the promise of curing cancer or transforming it into a manageable chronic disease.

What if coming up with a new drug could be measured in days rather than years? What if new medication would cost thousands instead of billions of dollars? Artificial intelligence technologies promise to speed up the process of drug discovery and make it more cost-effective. As the market is flourishing, and it takes time and effort to separate the wheat from the chaff, we collected the most promising AI pharma companies out there.

Despite the expectations and advancement of DNA analysis, nutrigenomics still struggles to gain momentum and become a mainstream service used by the masses.

I tried the pathway analysis DNA test by 3×4 Genetics. This method offers a lot if you are looking for results you can actually use in health/disease management.

Genome sequencing does definitely not equal with fortune telling: it cannot predict how long you will live or what your body mass index will look like. However, it can tell you a lot about your sensitivity to drugs, your family history or whether you are a carrier of monogenic conditions.

There is no digital health without sacrificing some of our privacy. The key is to know how you can control this process and protect what’s valuable.

Multivitamins, drugs, gene therapies, human skin, heart, eyeballs, kidneys, entire dead bodies – everything comes with a price tag. Putting aside the moral questions of why and how come that the capitalist market priced even our body parts and health, we asked the question of how much is life worth: what is the maximum that you would/should pay for a life-saving drug? How high is too high a cost if a drug can save 200-300 babies a year from debilitating illness or death? And ultimately, does the pricing of new technologies, especially gene therapies, enable to fulfill their promise?

Four reasons why we still don’t have reliably working nutrigenomics tests, which could tell us what we should eat based on our dna.

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