Genomics and Personalized Medicine

(October 20, 2009) Michael Snyder, Professor of Genetics and Chair of the Department of Genetics at Stanford, discusses advances in gene sequencing, the impact of genomics on medicine, the potential for personalized medicine. and efforts at Stanford to further study these issues.

Stanford Mini Med School is a series arranged and directed by Stanford's School of Medicine, and presented by the Stanford Continuing Studies program. Featuring more than thirty distinguished, faculty, scientists and physicians from Stanford's medical school, the series offers students a dynamic introduction to the world of human biology, health and disease, and the groundbreaking changes taking place in medical research and health care.

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Category:

Education

Tags:

• Science
• medicine
• biology
• technology
• health
• DNA
• sequencing
• chromosomes
• transcription
• nucleotides
• bases
• coding
• structural variations
• olfactory receptors
• human variation
• recombination
• predisposition testing
• pharmacogenomics
• BRCA1
• BRCA2
• ca

[grunder20]

Personalized medicine? Do they have patent creating these?

[agapitoflores001]

Wow, I can't believe it is now possible.

[jonald32z]

Regarding the discussion at 1:24:00 on Type II diabetes, Prf Sapolsky notes in one of his lectures that a "wasteful" metabolism can be a preventative element. That is to say that people whose genetic history is "thriftier" are at greater risk because their bodies don't flush out the crap as quickly as Westernized folks do. This is seen especially when traditional cultures encounter Western diets. Hypertension, obesity and diabetes go way up in those cultures.

[roza3217]

check out a short witty video defining personalized medicine made by PhD students called "The greatest drug in the world " on the genomics education youtube channel

[CarolynFK]

Great lecture making a complex topic really accessible. Thank you!

[master7387]

great lecture from a greater lecturer please keep on uploading these cool lectures

thanks alot .

[pvpmew]

very cool

[pinochet222]

very interesting stuff man, can't wait for the update from 2010:)