🎧 AI and the Genetic Revolution

My conversation with Stephen Hsu

Hi,

Here is my full discussion with Stephen Hsu, theoretical physicist, genomics researcher, and the founder of Genomic Prediction.

In this fascinating conversation, we discuss:

• The super Moore’s law of genomic sequencing across the last 20 years.

• The process behind genomic sequencing.

• How learning algorithms are used in genomic sequencing to calculate polygenic scores.

• FDA approval of the first genetic treatment for monogenic conditions – and the ongoing work towards developing treatments for polygenic conditions like diabetes and cancers.

• Rigorous peer-review process and predictor validation across sample population.

• Commercialisation of mono- and polygenic disease risk prediction in IVF, and the lines drawn by the medical and scientific communities around the provision of information types.

• How might this technology exacerbate existing social inequalities? Is this just an issue of access, or does it go further?

• Developing the best protocols for governance and regulation of genomic technolog…