Why bioscience is good for your body, your health, your life
We are all united by the desire for health, longevity, and freedom from pain. Along with our own good health, we want better healthcare for everyone — healthcare that’s more accessible to a greater number of people. We want accurate diagnoses and instantly effective medicines to dispel our fears and support a booming global population.
Technology is moving us in that direction. Powerful Artificial Intelligence (AI) could soon allow us to detect, diagnose and treat illnesses in far better ways and at far earlier stages than doctors are able to in our current system. The potential for big-data to give us crucial health insights is one part of the puzzle. Bioscience is another. Moving forward, the breakthroughs in bioscience that are possible today could drastically enhance our understanding of the human body and how to treat its ailments.
Bioscience is a broad term that encompasses all scientific biological pursuits, but the implications of advancements in bioscience on healthcare are significant. With more intimate knowledge of biological functions on every scale, we see new opportunities to treat illnesses and to target physical conditions that result in suffering for millions.
Even Bioscience advancements in life forms other than humans can help meet this goal. New knowledge in the functions of cells, mitochondria and atoms arising from studying a sea turtle can offer as much insight as our studies of human beings. Research into the inner workings of plants and hardy bacteria may supply us with new medicines, or even finally reveal the origins of life itself, which would clearly transform our grasp of medicine.
Bioscience is important to healthcare in three ways:
Better protection — Preventative healthcare is the best healthcare. It reduces costs and saves the pain and ache of going to the doctor at all. Bioscience is always revealing new ways to give us better protection, first, by teaching us about the biological system — what’s healthy and what’s not and second, by revealing new ways we can monitor and measure signs of deteriorating health before they become a threat.
Better detection — Which brings us to better detection. In particular, cancer becomes more life-threatening the longer it remains without diagnosis and treatment. Knowledge drawn from bioscience can give us insights into early warning signs for illnesses like cancer, to enable treatment to take place earlier — before the onset of pain or the obvious appearance of a tumor.
Better treatment — From e-coli, to cancer and genetic disorders, bioscience helps us improve and advance treatment paradigms across the board, raising the life expectancy and living standards of many people across the globe. Part of the equation of better treatment is also cheaper delivery that makes the most effective treatments available more accessible to a wider range of the general public.
Through the BioLife ecosystem, the bioscience community is given a dynamic platform to invigorate ongoing research and development along with all patients everywhere having a single secure, trustworthy and immutable electronic health record (EHR) on the blockchain. This blockchain-based EHR can be made available to healthcare practitioners on a permission basis, to support patient access to better healthcare while researchers have access to real data that can drive the innovations of tomorrow.
