American - Scientist | July 28, 1973 -
There's not enough competition and innovation in healthcare.
Anne Wojcicki
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Health is not sort of like a 6-month project. Health is a lifetime accumulation of behaviors.
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I think that the idea of people wanting to steal your genome remains a little bit in the world of science fiction.
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In Silicon Valley, you want things done instantly.
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Traditionally, when you talk to people who have Parkinson's or Alzheimer's, they'll talk about how they're in five or six studies, and they've been sequenced by each study. That's just fat in the system. Just have a single data set that then you can share. You can make the entire system more efficient.
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Big data is going to make us all healthier.
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There's going to be space travel at some point.
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I want the world's data accessible.
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Every couple of weeks, someone writes in and says, '23andMe saved my life.'
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If I know I'm at genetically high risk of Alzheimer's, maybe I don't plan to retire at 80, and maybe I'm more proactive about where I'm going to live and who's going to take care of me.
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Employment and health insurance are now protected by the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act.
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Pharma companies don't have a direct relationship with consumers, so they're always subjects.
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