Richard Resnick: Welcome to the genomic revolution

http://www.ted.com In this accessible talk from TEDxBoston, Richard Resnick shows how cheap and fast genome sequencing is about to turn health care (and insurance, and politics) upside down.

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[alienisuntverus]

It's amazing how far and fast science is improving now. It was less than a decade ago when the human genome was sequenced and we went form machines taking 15 years for one genome to machines that take a week for multiple genomes.

[teewilson333]

To further clarify, the environment highly dictates our behavior, values, morals and mental illness's. If strontium 90 was not found in our water supply a large portion of us would not develop active cancer gene's. There is also a crime gene. If you had that gene and was raised in a environment with access to the necessity's and technologies regardless of wealth, one wouldn't steal. If you were born in Nazi Germany were you saw Sieg Hail and Deutschland über alles you'd likely be a Nazi.

[teewilson333]

This is interesting but the effects of genes towards behavior and mental illness's is minimal. The so called "cheating gene" he comments on may or may not become active in a person. The environment gives us different ways of responding with our gene's. You and your wife married at 22 may not relate when your 30. Extensional behavior will lessen and one may begin simulating love witch is common. This is one scenario of what drives cheating. Could i be wrong? Are gene's really the code of codes?

[valzpride]

wow.....

[Gr4yW0rld]

@OldSchoolSkill Or we could just lower our massive consumption of meat and now have SO much more food available to us instead of feeding it to the massive amounts of meat factories. I am not saying go vegan, I am just saying make meat a side dish instead of the main course.

Also fuck the corporate people

[PYlorable]

This guy is PR for Monsanto, about half way through he drops the bomb, saying that if we want to eat, we will half to accept GMO food, now, this I know to be absolutely false, obviously his talk is an attempt to support Big Pharma & Monsanto. Also, his claim about the success of gene therapy, well... if you caise the disease in the 1st place, you will obviously know where to look in the sequence. Rest assured, there are no supecomputers that go find gene diseases, unless they are man made!!!!!

[squaredeyeball]

@samsherbert you are right in what you are saying, but you forgot to mention that this scientific world is also going to hell. oh, and yes the Bible is a collection of stories, thanks for pointing it out.

[diazdiegoa7]

We as Human Beings are proud of all our scientific accomplishments. We intend to explore from the infinite small such as atoms, to the outrageously Big such as galaxies and the universe. What we must never fail to realize is that all of creation has been materialized into our physical world by energy. it is the knowledge of how to utilize this energy for our nourishment that will increase understanding in creation.

[MrMilagroqq]

@shane360xx how does that correlate to end times, sounds like maybe we'll get rid of some of god's incurable malladies

[shane360xx]

this just sounds like the end times are coming...when they are able to scan us and look at every gene in our body.

[samsherbert]

@squaredeyeball we move on to a scientific world and one that isn't dictated by a 2,500 year old collection of stories?