Precision Health is based on the possibility to customise the treatment to the specific individual. Hence, the question is: what is this specificity? When the genome was discovered and its role progressively understood back in the second half of the last century it became clear that our human genome is …
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The increase of thinking capabilities can be pursued by: “engineering” a better “brain” (pretty though, since we do not know yet how it works nor how the genome is shaping it …) Improving processing capabilities through focused stimulation better exploiting its capabilities, including establishing better connection with it, feeding more pertinent …
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Optimised diet We already have plenty of “apps” to help in monitoring our food “intake” and advising on what would be best for us and for the kind of activities we are planning. They just represent a starting point for what it might be possible tomorrow. Do you like nightmares? …
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The future of Health care, broadly speaking, is progressing along two directions: better understanding of the single individual and leveraging data from a multitude of individuals. Both are fuelled by increasing capability of “seeing” what is going on -that includes the genome sequencing-, thanks to better sensors and harvesting capabilities …
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In the Symbiotic Autonomous Systems Initiative we are looking at human augmentation technologies, including the ones that are at an early experimental stage but might become impactful in the coming decades. Among these we are looking at development in brain to computer interactions, digital twins, artificial intelligence and distributed / …
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Transhuman technologies III In this last segment on human augmentation I am touching upon the most profound changes that mark a departure from our species, hence the once that are most fraught with ethical issues. altering We all belong to the human species because our DNA is the one characterising …
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Time to look further ahead to technologies that are being explored in labs around the world and that won’t be likely to have an impact before 2040, yet if they will pick up they will have a disruptive effect on the market, on value chains and on ourselves. These technologies …
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Public Mood Monitoring We can be in the pink or feeling blue, what about our fellow citizens? How are they feeling now? And considering them all together, what is the mood of the city? This kind of questions would have been an impossible to answer just few years ago but …
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The code of life, the DNA, can be sequenced in a matter of days (that is our human code, there are “shorter codes” like the ones of some viruses but also much longer ones, like the one of a plant, the Paris Japonica, that is 50 times longer than our …
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Indeed, did you receive as Christmas present the kit for sequencing your genome? May be not, but many thousands of people did. And this is amazing! There are several companies that are offering private people the possibility of sequencing their genome (23andMe, Omegabioservice, Illumina, Cegat, OriGene, Eurofins Genomics, AncestryDNA, …) …
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