Health | October 29, 2016 |
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Quote of the Week
"The problem is getting these exabytes of genetic data. Turns out you can't just walk up to people, millions of them, and say, "Your data, please." You must first persuade them that you'll only do good things with it and won't let it fall into the wrong hands. (We do like our privacy.) You must then convince the medical centers and genetic companies that collect this data that, rather than hoard it for their own profit, they should share it so the entire research community can attain the economies of scale—the critical mass of data, individual sets eventually numbering in the millions—that Schadt and many others believe is necessary to understand the causes of diseases and engineer new treatments and cures."
- Lola Dupre, Wired
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