Geneticist Runs Personalized Medicine Superstudy On Himself

[MindMover]

Michael Snyder has taken “know thyself” to the next level — and helped heal thyself.

Over a 14-month period, the molecular geneticist at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, analyzed his blood 20 different times to pluck out a wide variety of biochemical data depicting the status of his body’s immune system, metabolism, and gene activity. In today’s issue of Cell, Snyder and a team of 40 other researchers present the results of this extraordinarily detailed look at his body, which they call an integrative personal omics profile (iPOP) because it combines cutting-edge scientific fields such as genomics (study of one’s DNA), metabolomics (study of metabolism), and proteomics (study of proteins). Instead of seeing a snapshot of the body taken during the typical visit to a doctor’s office, iPOP effectively offers an IMAX movie, which in Snyder’s case had the added drama of charting his response to two viral infections and the emergence of type 2 diabetes.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/03/diabetes-personal-genomics/?

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Now this is what I am talking about....Science at work.....Fantabulous news......

[Tuesday Afternoon]

1. excellent. thanks for the link.

[TheMadMonk]

2. Not at all fantabulous. We're too fucking selfish and greedy to use...

...such knowledge responsibly.

This knowledge would not be used to provide carefully targetted (preventative) heathcare. It would be used to deny healthcare to ANYONE deemed "too expensive" to care for profitably.

Once upon a time, the whole idea of insurance was to SPREAD THE RISK across ALL PLAYERS and hopefully break even with enough in reserve to bet against God himself. Now it's all about extracting the greatest amount of profit whilst providing the least possible amount of service.

[MindMover]

3. I believe......

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/41483660@N04/6500781799/" title="glass-half-full-pic by pbmus, on Flickr"><img src="" width="500" height="387" alt="glass-half-full-pic"></a>

[TheMadMonk]

4. Yeah, believeing the glass is 1/2 full, that underneath the arseholery...

...there's a decent human being who just needs to be properly appealed too...

IS EXACTLY WHY WE'RE IN THE FUCKING MESS WE'RE IN.

No! They ARE aresholes.
NO! They WILL do unto you that which you would not do unto them.
NO! They DO NOT have a better nature. AND...
NO! The world IS NOT a better place than it appears to be.

Compassion is fucking wasted on those who have no compassion for you.

If he's an arsehole, he's an arsehole and no amount of decent behaviour on your part will have the slightest positive effect on his behaviour towards you.