Predictive, Preventive and Personalized Medicine & Molecular Diagnostics

Biography

Biography: Jack Kushner

Abstract

While most of us use and enjoy the Internet everyday, we do not imagine that our brain has more interactivity and connections than the entire worldwide web.  In fact, twenty years from now, there will still be more connections and interconnections in one human brain than in all the servers and networks used by the Internet.  For it is the brain that separates humans from all others in the huge animal kingdom.  Our brain can receive information via our olfactory, visual, tactile, and auditory senses simultaneously. It can compute information stored in its recesses, have decision making capabilities based on incoming information, and can immediately take action by controlling other parts of the bodies.

    In February, 1943, Erwin Schrodinger (1887-1961) a Nobel Prize physicist from Austria, gave a lecture at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland entitled “What is Life?”  He identified the problem as follows: “incredibly small groups of atoms much too small to display exact statistical laws….play a dominating role in the very orderly and lawful events with a living organism.”  This presentation explains how we concentrate and focus and cause these particles to go into an organized formation and initiate enzymatic activity.

  In addition, we shall discuss how mutations occur in somatic cells including those neurons in the brain. These mutations occur more often in the genes a neuron most often uses.  By sequencing individual cells rare mutations are illuminated.