Guruduth Banavar
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Definitely not in our industry.
Still right now?
Even now.
Wow.
Even now.
We are the only company that measures RNA.
Everybody does DNA or they do something called metagenomics, which is to look at the DNA of microbes.
Right?
So that will only give you a very static view of what is going on.
It doesn't say what is actually active.
Wow.
It only tells you who's there.
It doesn't say what they're doing.
They may be doing something great.
They may be doing something really terrible.
You don't know the difference if you're just looking at DNA.
That's why RNA is super important.
And then you look at not just the human RNA, but you also look at the microbial RNA, and you combine the two.
And the way you do that is through AI.
AI is so important here because the amount of data that you can get from any sample, like in biome, we get three samples typically for our full body intelligence, which is your stool sample, your blood sample, and your saliva sample, right?