lynnwood @ 2019.04.25 7:14 AM
This idea aims to sharpen up diagnoses through a greater range of targeted, cost-effective population genome screening programs to identify rare and chronic diseases, especially cancer, earlier than ever before. Gene therapy and gene editing would be assisted by artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques. This would lead to better awareness of susceptibility to various diseases, improved access to more effective, safer and more finely-honed treatment regimes and more ability to prevent disease by lifestyle changes. The report proposing the idea makes a number of references to the US mission in the sixties to put a human being on the Moon. Help if you can to get this idea off the ground.

Max Berghouse @ 2019.04.25 7:14 AM
Anything that promises both increased longevity as well as a more fruitful life is always to be welcomed. America was first on the moon because it had a clear political imperative as well as the financial will to do so. I don't see the same thing here.

lynnwood @ 2019.04.25 7:14 AM
Yes- political will is hard to find in the current environment. However Austr?lia is very well positioned to set and achieve such an inspiring goal. It would be interesting to see the business case for this idea, including the assumptions being used given the reliance on new technologies.