Tal Zaks

And so now we're very intentionally changing somebody's DNA to have an effect that will last for the lifetime. Well, there are some people who are going to find that challenging based on their ethical and moral framework. That's legitimate.

And so now we're very intentionally changing somebody's DNA to have an effect that will last for the lifetime. Well, there are some people who are going to find that challenging based on their ethical and moral framework. That's legitimate.

There's a concern for what this means for future generations and making sure that we're doing it for the individual and not with unintended consequences for their offsprings, or maybe sometimes with intended consequences. questions and ethical debates that we will have to resolve before this is widely acceptable. But at the end of that

There's a concern for what this means for future generations and making sure that we're doing it for the individual and not with unintended consequences for their offsprings, or maybe sometimes with intended consequences. questions and ethical debates that we will have to resolve before this is widely acceptable. But at the end of that

If you can have a medicine that you take once, twice, or three times, and then you're cured for the rest of your life, as opposed to having to take an injection every two weeks, I think that's huge progress for those patients.

If you can have a medicine that you take once, twice, or three times, and then you're cured for the rest of your life, as opposed to having to take an injection every two weeks, I think that's huge progress for those patients.

There's an old saying in the Talmud, which is my ethical framework given my religion, that since the time of the destruction of the temple, prophecy has been given to fools. So to the degree that I'm going to give you any prophecy, that makes me a fool. But to the degree you listen, well, that's on you. So five years is probably the easiest time.

There's an old saying in the Talmud, which is my ethical framework given my religion, that since the time of the destruction of the temple, prophecy has been given to fools. So to the degree that I'm going to give you any prophecy, that makes me a fool. But to the degree you listen, well, that's on you. So five years is probably the easiest time.

I'm of a certain age and generation and fairly conservative in my views. So up until now, I looked at all these data collections and thought to myself, well, you know, everybody knows what it means to eat healthy and exercise more. So getting more data to tell you what you already know is actually not going to change much.

I'm of a certain age and generation and fairly conservative in my views. So up until now, I looked at all these data collections and thought to myself, well, you know, everybody knows what it means to eat healthy and exercise more. So getting more data to tell you what you already know is actually not going to change much.

But I'm actually coming around because I do agree that I think there's a lot of differences between people in terms of what is the right intervention for them. And I think my generation of medicine is guilty with peanut buttering the effect across a population without really understanding the chunkiness of it.

But I'm actually coming around because I do agree that I think there's a lot of differences between people in terms of what is the right intervention for them. And I think my generation of medicine is guilty with peanut buttering the effect across a population without really understanding the chunkiness of it.

I actually told my wife the other day that this is the year for me and for us to actually start collecting data in a more thoughtful manner and a much deeper level than we've done in the past. Because like most people, I go once every year or two and get the usual blood work and take my statin for a tad of high cholesterol and think I'm done.

I actually told my wife the other day that this is the year for me and for us to actually start collecting data in a more thoughtful manner and a much deeper level than we've done in the past. Because like most people, I go once every year or two and get the usual blood work and take my statin for a tad of high cholesterol and think I'm done.

But I think there's a whole lot more that we're going to learn that we can do. It is amazing to me, and one of the triggers is the recognition. You go and get the blood work in a hospital, and the thing that I find very depressing is the fact that if you go today into an emergency room and you get blood work,

But I think there's a whole lot more that we're going to learn that we can do. It is amazing to me, and one of the triggers is the recognition. You go and get the blood work in a hospital, and the thing that I find very depressing is the fact that if you go today into an emergency room and you get blood work,

you're gonna get the same panel that you did when I was a medical student 40 years ago, maybe with two additional analytes that have been added in the last 40 years. I find that so depressing. With all the progress we've had, and it's the same blood work. Now, here's an interesting fact.

you're gonna get the same panel that you did when I was a medical student 40 years ago, maybe with two additional analytes that have been added in the last 40 years. I find that so depressing. With all the progress we've had, and it's the same blood work. Now, here's an interesting fact.

There's a brilliant AI scientist at the Weizmann Institute called Amos Tanai, and he spent most of his career designing better proteins to make drugs and things of that nature that you would associate with AI. But he was curious to understand how much of that regular blood work variability can be trimmed if we understand you as a person better.

There's a brilliant AI scientist at the Weizmann Institute called Amos Tanai, and he spent most of his career designing better proteins to make drugs and things of that nature that you would associate with AI. But he was curious to understand how much of that regular blood work variability can be trimmed if we understand you as a person better.