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We have always been fascinated by the fountain of youth and myths abound in many cultures. In spite none has been found so far, researchers have been, and are, at work to find ways to extend our life span, in the last decade trying to leverage on the possibility of …

I still remember the announcement of the first human DNA sequencing. It took thousands of scientists working for 13 years to accomplish that feat. And we were amazed! It didn’t come cheap:2.7 billion $. By 2014 genome sequencing broke the 1,000$ barrier. 2.7 million times cheaper. Now a new world …

From Genome Sequencing to Artificial Human Genome The progress in genome sequencing has been so significant that in 20 years we have moved from a billion $ endeavour to obtain the first genome sequence to a mass market offering of sequencing. There is still quite a bit of confusion on …

The World Economic Forum has addressed several times in the last few years the area of biotech and has recently published an infographic highlighting the variety of impacts in several areas. Indeed the convergence of processing power, big data, artificial intelligence makes possible to open new doors into the “carbon” …

3. Increased lifespan Humankind lifespan has been stable, around 30 years was life expectancy for most part of the recorded history, probably less in the hundreds of thousands of years we have no written record. This relatively short life span didn’t mean that a few people couldn’t live longer, we …

4. In addition to the previous questions, any other comments? The fight against COVID-19 is being fought on several directions: – decreasing the probability of contagion, usually through social distancing and isolation of potential foci of infection. Technology can help through sensing distance (Bluetooth based apps), data analytics (tracing of …

Healthy life extension The dream of eternal youth goes back as far as we can see into the past. In reality, most of homo sapiens sapiens life span has been below 30 years. There have been exception of course and if we consider the early death in infancy and remove …

As I often pointed out computers and data are an integral component of the digital transformation but at the same time it is not true that by adding more and more crunching data capabilities to a business you are digitally transforming it. A clear example is the Healthcare area. Nowadays …

Since the sequencing of the first genome at the turn of the century quite a few predicted that in a few decades it will become the norm for all newborns to have  their genome sequenced, as blood typing was the norm  (at least in Western Countries). At that time, the …

DNA fingerprinting is “old” stuff, going back to the 1980ies (watch the clip). What is new is the amount of DNA now available in several “accessible” data bases. People are having fun in looking at their sequenced genome, through companies like 23andMe, Ancestry and others. Actually, sequencing the genome has …