Human Body
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Panigrahi: Healthcare treats human health as binary rather than a spectrum
“Even the way the healthcare today looks at, You know, the human body is very binary. Either you are healthy or you are diseased. The moment you are diseased, there is an ecosystem to serve you. But you are, but that's not what is happening. What is happening e…”
Niehaus: DigitalDX's thesis treats the human body as a big data problem
“Our thesis, our investment thesis, is that the human body is a big data problem”
Johnson: Airborne Particulates Lodge in Tissues, Causing Systemic Damage
“These contaminants wreak havoc on the body. It can create neurological dysfunction. It can cause asthma. It can cause lung irritation. It just like its whole body damage. It gets into tissues. It lodges in. It's very hard to remove it. So it's not like somethi…”
Walker: Almost nobody is resilient across all health domains on six hours of sleep
“When you take a holistic view, what you find is that there is almost nobody who is completely resilient to that diet of six hours of sleep on all of those different measures. So some people are resilient to a lack of sleep in some domains, but they will be vul…”
Friedberg: DeepMind published predicted structures for all human proteins
“This morning, DeepMind incredibly published a database with the predicted structure of every protein in the human body, and in 10 other species using this capability that they now have.”
Otte: The average human produces 12 cancer cells every minute
“On average, an average human being makes, you know, 12 cancer cells every minute.”
De Grey: Engineering maintenance principles can postpone the ill health of aging
“Any machine, and of course the human body is just a machine, right any machine has moving parts, it does damage to itself as a side effect of its normal operation, so one can use the same principles, the same, like, top-level principles to postpone the ill hea…”