This is but one obvious example of how the project has changed medicine.
And those effects -- the various ways in which information subverts hierarchy -- are beginning to change medicine fundamentally.
"The knowledge we gain from the gene trust has the potential to change medicine forever," the site, DNA.com, intones.
I think the answer is that we have not grappled with the fact that the complexity of science has changed medicine fundamentally.
Dr. Lindholm, chairman of the department of public health and clinical medicine at Umea University Hospital in Sweden, warned that patients on beta blockers should not change medicine on their own.
"The upside is so huge that if we are right, the company that dominates the sirtuin space could dominate the pharmaceutical industry and change medicine," Dr. David Sinclair of the Harvard Medical School, a co-founder of the company, said Tuesday.
Indeed, some experts foresee a time not so long from now when genetic testing will change medicine mostly from a system of detecting and treating disease to one of predicting and preventing it.
"You can make policy changes till you're blue in the face, but if patients and doctors don't change the way they think about medicine, we'll never change medicine," said Dr. David Newman, an emergency medicine physician at St . Lukes-Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York and the author of "Hippocrates' Shadow: Secrets From the House of MediniNew Yorkon & Schuster, 2008).
Mr Milken's philanthropic career has parallelled his business career for 35 years and was recognised on the cover of Fortune, which called him "The Man Who Changed Medicine".
The classification, which changed medicine's thinking about anemia, described three types of anemia: failure of bone marrow to produce red cells; formation of ineffective red cells; and abnormal breakdown of normal red cells.
