Technology: Biotech

We will discuss the concept of a health commons, which allows individuals who pool their health data to share in the downstream value that data. This discussion will touch on potential benefits, structures, and existing prototypes of health commons on different levels, from to society-wide concepts, to smaller non-profit structures, and potential local applications for… Continue reading Health Commons | Kevin Perrott, Hong Jiang, Brian Delaney, Keith Comito, Steve Fowkes

Gordan Lauc and Daniel Bojar discuss the role of glycans in aging and COVID-19. Daniel Bojar, 2020 Foresight Fellow in Health & Longevity recently gave this Foresight presentation on “The Dark Matter in Biology” and its role in COVID-19 initiating this discussion. We are honored to be joined by Professor Gordan Lauc, whose extensive research… Continue reading Glycans, Aging & COVID-19

Summary Reverse-Engineering the Genomic Causes of Disease by Cosmo: “Of all the datasets in modern biology, genomic data is the only data-type that is provably “causal” for the development of disease. Large genomic association studies give us an extremely narrow list of key genes that are important, and our task now is to determine what… Continue reading Reverse-Engineering the Genomic Causes of Disease