People go on exploration; they're trying to find places that weren't known before. But it is an inevitable fact of research, as is in any other form of exploration of the unknown, that some people find they go down a dead end.
Distributed ledger technologies have the potential to help governments to collect taxes, deliver benefits, issue passports, record land registries, assure the supply chain of goods, and generally ensure the integrity of government records and services.
The question is, are there useful things that we can do with the results of a genome sequence that would bring benefit? And the answer is, today, should the majority of people go and have their genome sequenced? Probably not. But are there particular circumstances in which genome sequencing is really helpful? Yes, there are.
We all want our drugs to be safe - and so an essential part of the pathway to the development of a new drug is approval by a regulator.
Public trust is a vital condition for artificial intelligence to be used productively.
Henry Wellcome certainly was a talented character with a colorful and amazing personal story.
