David Friedberg

Thank you, David Sachs, for the role.

And I think this speaks to one of the important roles that government has in doing fundamental science and fundamental research.

So the National Cancer Institute and the federal government stood up this genome atlas with $100 million a couple years ago.

They spend only a few million dollars a year now to maintain it, to get cancer tissue samples

and then create the availability to scientists to use those cancer tissue samples to do the sort of epigenomic analysis and study supported by government grants, or in this case, supported by a foreign university getting funding to do it.

And so there's an important role that fundamental science still has in elucidating this that we would have otherwise not been able to see if we didn't have this resource available to us from the federal government and federal funding of scientific programs like this.

And that leads to this discovery.

You don't need fancy AI for this, to be frank, J. Cal.

There's an incredible amount of data that's available or resources that are available.

What's happened in the last couple of years is what's called RNA sequencing, where you can actually look at which genes are on or off, not just what's the DNA, but in the DNA.

Remember, we've talked a lot about the epigenome, what genes are on or off.

And how that changes when you have different cancers or when you have different chemicals.

And when you have a certain chemical like piclorum, your colorectal cancer goes through the roof.

And you can see that relationship in those tissues.

And then you can put all the data together and say, oh my gosh, there's a lot of evidence here that points to this connection.

Very powerful.

I think it's important that it opens up the window that this shouldn't just be a one-off research project conducted by a team in Spain.

but maybe should be a fundamental role that some of the government agencies play, which is to stop Americans and the world from getting frigging cancer.

Let's figure out the things that we got wrong in industry and go back and delete them out of our food supply and out of our industrial supply.

And I think this is a really good example of that.