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72. What’s Stopping Us From Curing Rare Diseases?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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Artificial Intelligence in a Doctor's Office

Our ability to engineer these CRISPR medicines has far outpaced how these medicines are actually built, tested and put into human beings. What if artificial intelligence could examine the fingerprints, the breadcrumbs that patients leave throughout the healthcare system? Can feed our urnoff? will tell us how editing the human genome can cure disease? And why his answers to those desperate emails aren't so straightforward.

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