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Robert S. Engelmore Memorial Award Lecture - Cancer results from finite genomic mutations that biotechnology can easily list, and that we can mostly understand and reason about in terms of the underlying biochemistry. 
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Sequencing DNA from individual cells is changing the way that researchers think of humans as a whole.
Phillip Trotter's insight:
Human genomes such as cancer have been traditionally sequenced from DNA extracted from multiple cells. With certain cancers we know that local individual cellular adaptations, mutations and variation impact gene expression, cell behaviour and drug response. Nicholas Navin pioneered a new approach for single cell sequencing pioneered in order to sequence individual cancer cells and map local mutations and adaptations. Timour Basian and team inspired by Navin's work, helped perfect techniques for single cell sequencing while dramatically reduced sequencing pricing from $1000 per single cell to approx $60 per cell. The article discuses further developments, implications and potential opportunities created by the advent of single cell sequencing. Worth reading.
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Jay Tenenbaum - an industry leading A.I researcher gives a great lecture on the role of A.I in finding cures from Cancer. He speaks with authority of not just being a leading researcher in the area but also a cancer survivor. If you are interested in understanding the role of information science in biology this is a great presentation, worth watching.