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>> We're entering a revolutionary new period of
personalized medicine.
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We're going to be shifting from treating people once they have
disease to actually predicting and preventing disease.
We're going to do that through analyzing people's genomes and
making billions of measurements, so-called Omics measurements
that will be able to let us see things in molecular detail.
We'll be able to enhance people's health while they're
healthy rather than trying to fix them after they've got a
serious disease problem.
Omics is a discipline, if you will.
It's the collection of measurements of your
biomolecules.
It's your DNA, your RNA, your proteins, your metabolites and
even your microbial.
Together, they give you a very complete picture of what you
look like when you're healthy and also when you're sick.
What's driving a lot of this whole new era of medicine and
health is this through revolution and technologies.
We're using data, and big data, to actually try and understand
and manage people's health.
In the future, some of it will come through your smart phone
and other places to actually better help you manage your
health in a data-driven fashion.
The biggest challenge is trying to interpret and analyze all the
data.
What's amazing about this particular investigation is that
we are bringing together ten experts and all studying Mark
and Scott, and basically they're each studying different
components.
And each, if you will, is a different piece of the Omics
puzzle.
And our job is actually to integrate all of those pieces so
that we get a nice picture of what's happening while they're
healthy and when they go through these various stresses such as
being shot into space, living in space, and eating all the space
food, and even returning back to Earth.
The nice thing about having these astronauts measured in
incredible detail is we'll see what kinds of perturbations,
what kinds of changes, if you will, stresses actually cause
what kinds of outcomes.
And we hope to use that kind of information to better manage
people's health on Earth.
So by taking billions of measurements, we'll see what
kinds of subtle changes can occur or dramatic changes and
then understand what kinds of drugs or diet or exercise can be
better used to treat people to keep them happy and healthy.
So Omics, we think, is going to be a big game changer because
we're going to see things at a resolution, at a level no one
has ever seen before.
We're going to be able to better understand when you're healthy
and when you're sick.
And we're going to see how this differs for different people.
That is to say why certain things make you sick but not
other people and vice versa.
We want to understand all these things at an individual level so
that we can best manage health for you.
And that's really the power of personalized medicine.