Hyper-personalized medicine

The unfortunate truth about diseases is that not all of them are widespread and reoccurring, some children are born with fatal diseases that are so exceedingly rare that there is no treatment. Until now, doctors would be forced to tell patients with diseases like this that there is nothing they can do. Doctors can now use new methods of hyper personalized medicine to create treatments for DNA mutations. There has not been one major innovation in medicine that has allowed this, instead it is multiple innovations like gene editing, gene replacement, and many other emerging technologies all of which can now be programed digitally to correct DNA letter by letter. The digital nature of new medical technologies is what can make these sorts of treatments possible by turning tasks that would have been impossible by hand relatively simple and quick.

The implication and effects of these types of treatments is huge. Not only will patients with extremely rare DNA mutations now be able to have a treatment, this technology could possibly be taken advantage of by everyone. Hyper personalized medicine could be a divergent technology that changes medicine forever. Imagine having a personal pill created  using your own DNA which would give you vitamins, nutrients, or whatever your body is lacking due to your DNA. This wouldn’t cure a disease per-say but it could give someone the potential to become the healthiest version of themselves the could be. Along with this I am sure that Hyper personalized medicine with have many many applications in the future.

 

https://www.technologyreview.com/10-breakthrough-technologies/2020/#hyper-personalized-medicine

 

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  1. It truly is amazing how far medicine has come! This topic interests me as I will soon begin an internship with a pharmaceutical consulting company that establishes supply chains for personalized medicines. These supply chains can be complicated compared ones for large-scale medications (i.e. penicillin) because they must constantly serve a moving demand target rather than just sending mass shipments everywhere. The recent innovations in blockchain technology are making these supply chains more efficient. Blockchain works by stringing together transactions (“blocks”) so that they can be effectively tracked. Each transaction must be verified before a block can be made and must contain a signature from the previous block. This makes the blockchain incredibly secure, as tampering with one block breaks the chain and quickly indicates a problem. This reliability and security is especially useful to the medical industry where information is sensitive and critical. Blockchain technology is still in development as it is a newer technology and requires an immense amount of computing power. However, I am excited to see how the blockchain can revolutionize the medical industry and propagate further personalization of medicine.

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