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How personalised healthcare will help you live longer

Dr Euan Ashley, Associate Dean in the School of Medicine at Stanford University, believes we have entered a new era of personalised healthcare that will change how we predict, diagnose and treat both rare and common disease. But is he concerned these seismic breakthroughs will create a multi-tier healthcare system with the rich at the front of the queue?
Dr Euan Ashley
Dr Euan Ashley

Dr Euan Ashley is a physician, scientist and author and Associate Dean in the School of Medicine at Stanford University. He is known for helping establish the field of medical genomics and led the team that conducted the first medical interpretation of the human genome. His latest book The Genome Odyssey brings the breakthroughs of precision medicine to life through the real diagnostic journeys of his patients. He lives in California. Follow him on X. Visit Ashley Lab.

The future of healthcare is here

It took ten countries ten years and $3 billion to sequence the human genome but since that seismic breakthrough the time, cost and effort to repeat the feat has plummeted.

Dr Euan Ashley, Associate Dean in the School of Medicine at Stanford University, is known for helping establish the field of medical genomics and led the team that conducted the first medical interpretation of the human genome. Most recently his team have held a Guinness World Record for the fastest DNA sequencing technique at a little more than five hours.

The implications, as he explains in our in-depth interview, will change the world, both in extremely rare cases of unknown disease diagnosis for faster treatment, right up to population-level systemic changes to national and international healthcare policy.

It has the potential to change everything we thought we knew about genetics, disease, medicine and treatment, and could significantly improve both lifespan and healthspan around the world.

But it is not without risk, most notably the concern of the creation of a multi-tier healthcare and insurance system in which those with money and influence will always be at the front of the queue. As Dr Ashley explains, the future of the world rests on the right decisions being made.


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1 Comment

  • Daniel
    Posted September 11, 2023 at 9:39 am

    Love this and is why we developed our DNA and Epigenetics test kit

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