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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For some people, it's best for their mental health to know they have the gene for Huntington's and some time in the future they'll have a problem. But to other people, it would be a disaster.
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All of the details that most of us memorize in medical school - you don't have to learn those things. They're going to be in your computer.
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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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Anybody that thought the genome was going to directly provide drugs was a fool. Biological networks are not simple, and making drugs to affect them won't be simple.
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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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My own view about knowledge is we're always better to have knowledge.
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The major thing is to view biology as an information science.
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My fundamental philosophy is that you owe it to society to transfer to them any knowledge you have that might be useful.