Science. Biotechnology and Health Care

Event: 
Science, Social Innovation and New Humanity
3 December 2007
14.20 - 16.00
Room: 
Excelsior
BACKGROUND

Biotechnology will continue to revolutionize Health Care.
Some expect that the "general human genome project" will be superseded by the "individual human genome projects" that will allow all individuals to know the sequence of their individual genomes. Medicine will no longer use drugs that have been tested for the average population, but develop a way to administer drugs that are appropriate to the individual human condition of each patient.
We can expect even more radical revolutions, when science starts to master the process of writing the genome.

RERERENCE 

Mark Frankel (2003) Inheritable Genetics Modification and a Brave New World: Did Huxley Have It Wrong? Hastings Center Report  January-February 2003, 2-7
Available here on WePuble

STATE OF THE DISCUSSION

Ongoing.

Related Discussion and Information Lines
Discuss: Medical treatment will be adapted to the individual DNA sequence of the patient.
Discuss: Health care has always tried to improve the human condition and was never limited to curing.
Discuss: In the future, changing the human genome will be widely accepted
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