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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Breast cancer isn't one disease - it's probably four or five different types, and without knowing what type a person has, you can't optimize treatment for them.
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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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Don't listen to the prevailing majority points of view. If you have new ideas, push them.
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Each form of Alzheimer's disease should perturb different brain networks and so influence the concentration of different proteins that can be measured in the blood.
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To manipulate the immune system, you need to find the key bottlenecks that govern the system. The T-cell is an absolute bottleneck.
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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 have good genes, and I also do lots of exercises.
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I didn't want my genome to be sequenced by any of the companies that were out there doing the partial sequences just from the point of view of commercialisation.
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If you go to the FDA with a drug that's only meant to treat 50 people, and it's a 95 percent cure rate, you'll get your drug approved.
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If you know the mother's genome and the father's genome, and you see that the children have some genes that neither parent has, then you know that difference is either a mutation or a processing error.
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What you need to learn how to do is analyze situations and do differential diagnoses and understand the principle and the concepts rather than learn all the details, and medical school doesn't begin to do that.
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The systems approach to biology will be the dominant theme in medicine.
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If a startup stays in Microsoft, it does not have a chance, because all it tries to do goes against what Microsoft is about.
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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.