The Sawyer Lab is establishing techniques that fit into the “rapid response” pipeline on which we must now rely in the face of endless new viral emergence events.
I’ll provide my perspective on why science could become more accurate and efficient once we rescue this term.
Scientific fishing expeditions are valuable because they can take research in new directions.
For too long in America health has been defined as simply not being sick.
One of society’s greatest challenges today is to improve health and achieve health equity for all at lower cost. I will speak about the plan of the Colorado Longitudinal Study (COLS) to create the largest, longitudinal repository of biological specimens and associated community and public health data in the world. I will discuss how we plan to recruit one million participants in Colorado to donate blood and urine annually for a 10-year period. COLS will also ask participants to provide comprehensive information about their health, behaviors, mood, and environment over time allowing researchers to study the interaction between biology and lifestyle in unprecedented ways. The impact of this will be more than additive, it will be multiplicative.
When my first husband Stephen was born with cystic fibrosis in 1968, the average life expectancy for a person with his illness was 10 years.
At the 2010 GoldLab Symposium, I discussed the challenges facing medical care systems as they try to build physician-centric primary care systems. Shortages of trained physicians force a rethinking of traditional solutions. Emerging technologies provide a host of new ways to respond.
Targeted nucleases, which include zinc finger nucleases and CRIPSR/Cas9, are poised to revolutionize gene therapy by potentially offering safer and more precise methods to engineer human genes.
Why has drug discovery become less efficient as the technologies that most people think are important have improved spectacularly?
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