Seven ways the ‘biological century’ will transform healthcare
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By Mike Moradi, Co-Founder and CEO, Sensulin and David Berry, General Partner, Flagship Pioneering
Among the many disruptive forces that the Fourth Industrial Revolution promises to unleash is a revolution in healthcare. We’re entering the century of biology – in which up-to-now crude interventions in our genetic makeup will become far more sophisticated, allowing us to fine-tune our essential biological structure.
These changes will scare some, excite others, and generally raise questions that cannot be answered. Category 5 change, you might say. As well as the philosophical implications, there are practical ones, too, as healthcare worldwide undergoes a total transformation.
Here are our predictions:
1. Death will be optional
The Hayflick limit describes the theoretical restrictions on human life, partially based upon the length of one’s telomeres (roughly 125 years of age). To put it another way, cell death is simply a defect in our genes. This defect may be remedied by techniqu...
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