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[00:00.43] I also think there's a systematic or institutional resistance, right?

[00:06.27] Because genomics is the tip of the spear for preventive care.

[00:11.05] It's really the first in a series of things that we need to bring in order to preserve our health: multiomics, proteomics, transcriptomics, wearables, all the exciting things we've heard about that will keep us well instead of simply treating us when we're sick.

[00:28.85] Now, I'm happy to tell you that I've co-founded an international consortium on newborn sequencing.

[00:37.35] It's grown to 27 groups around the world that are all doing this in different healthcare systems.

[00:44.26] We get together, we compare notes, we share data.

[00:47.71] It's really exciting.

[00:48.24] I go to these annual meetings, it’s the most exciting meeting I go to every year, we feel like we're inventing an entirely new field of medicine.

[00:53.29] But if we really want to invent the future, we've got to do something different.

[00:57.01] If we really want to invent the future, we've got to realize that a child's DNA doesn't change over time, but the science is changing all the time.

[01:07.90] And so what that means is we should sequence your child's DNA, and we should revisit and reanalyze that DNA over and over again to truly create the dream of genome-informed medicine.

[01:22.51] Because each and every year there will be new insights and new treatments available.

[01:28.88] This isn't offered anywhere in the world, but I'm happy to tell you that we are trying to build this.

[01:36.85] We are building an AI-enhanced digital health platform so that you, your grandchildren, your children, your pediatricians, your health care centers, your employers, your nations can do this at scale.

[01:54.91] It's going to take a certain amount of courage to change the way we think about disease, to embrace the knowledge of risk in order to preserve our health, rather than waiting for us and our children to get sick and treating them there.

[02:11.12] But if we can do this, if we can embrace this, we can save millions of lives and usher in an entirely new era of genome-inspired medicine.