What if we could map all of human biology? @TEDMED

TEDMED | What if we could map all of human biology? @TEDMED | Uploaded July 2019 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
It can take years - even decades - for a drug in development to finally reach patients. Leveraging today’s technology, Ron Alfa Senior VP of Recursion Pharmaceuticals, is working with his team to create a map of human cellular biology. Ron explains, in his TEDMED 2018 Hive Talk, that by aggregating data at the cellular level, new drugs can be tested and delivered to patients in a fraction of the time it takes today.

$What if we could map all of human biology? It can take years - even decades - for a drug in development to finally reach patients. Leveraging today’s technology, Ron Alfa Senior VP of Recursion Pharmaceuticals, is working with his team to create a map of human cellular biology. Ron explains, in his TEDMED 2018 Hive Talk, that by aggregating data at the cellular level, new drugs can be tested and delivered to patients in a fraction of the time it takes today.$

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