As Amy Dockser Marcus writes for The Information, we’ve been here before. In 2000, on the heels of the first sequencing of human DNA, Francis Collins, then-director of the Human Genome Project, predicted that “in another 20, 25 years we should be able to prevent or cure most cases of cancer, of diabetes, of heart disease, of multiple sclerosis, of asthma.” And yet, here we are, 26 years later, facing a growing epidemic of chronic diseases.
Daphne Koller, CEO of the AI-driven drug development company insitro, calls it the “magic wand” assumption. “Hundreds of years into modern medicine,” she writes, “our understanding of most human disease…
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