Leroy Hood
Leroy Hood
Leroy Hood is an American biologist. He is president and co-founder of the Institute for Systems Biology...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth10 October 1938
CountryUnited States of America
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An important finding is that by determining the genome sequences of an entire family, one can identify many DNA sequencing errors and thus greatly increase the accuracy of the data. This will ultimately help us understand the role of genetic variations in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease.
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What is unique about humans is their individuality.
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Medicine will be personalized and preventive: Your genome might predict that you have an 80 percent chance of breast cancer by the time you are 50, but if you take a preventive drug starting when you are 40, the chance will drop to 2 percent.
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Data-intensive graph problems abound in the Life Science drug discovery and development process.
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Your genome sequence will become a vital part of your medical record, thereby providing critical information about how to optimize your wellness.
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If you look at healthcare today, it's all about disease. It's not about understanding wellness at all.
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If you just focus on the smallest details, you never get the big picture right.
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In the late 1970s, when I was a professor at Caltech, I pioneered four instruments for analyzing genes and proteins that revolutionized modern biology - and one of these, the automated DNA sequencer, enabled the Human Genome Project.
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We are evolutionary descendents of this marvellous panoply of life. And what that says unequivocally is we have an utter total obligation to make sure we have an environment that not only is good for us but is good for all living organisms.
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We don't argue if drug companies create drugs that can cure humans and charge lots of money for them, even though we all have these diseases. It will be pretty hard to make a different argument for genes.
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My own view about knowledge is we're always better to have knowledge.
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Most of the people who claim to be doing systems biology are really studying simple and complex molecular machines and how they function, and that is an aspect of systems biology; but it isn't. It's the networks that really capture and store and transmit and integrate and modulate and finally end up executing the biological information as it is.
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I think the real problem is it's easy to persuade young kids of particular kinds of ideas, because they are flexible.
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The major thing is to view biology as an information science.