What new things are going on in the scientific community that make this a good time for an educational effort focused on personalized medicine?
There is an international effort known as the 1000 Genomes Project, directed at producing the complete genome sequence of 1000 individuals representing ethnicities around the world. Our own National Institutes of Health has set a goal of reducing the cost of sequencing an individual human genome down to $1000 or less, likely to be achieved in the near future, and is funding the sequencing of approximately 10,000 human “exome” sequences (an exome consists of the 22,000 genes in our genomes that provide the coding information for proteins). The National Cancer Institute has embarked upon the mission of sequencing the genomes of thousands of different examples of the most common human cancers to uncover the changes in genomes that lead to so much human suffering. Finally, our campus is within 50 miles of the companies producing the most innovative advances in genome sequencing technology. These advances are stunning even to those of us who use these technologies every day, and they have v
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