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Elad started his career with a PhD in cancer biology prior to starting the mobile team at Google, so I don't think "academic imperialism" is an accurate descriptor.

I think you'll see more people with these hybrid skills over time. They take years to develop, though.

If we want advancement in medicine, can we really do it without deep collaboration between biology and computer science? If so, isn't Color Genomics a model of particularly deep cross-disciplinary work, not academic imperialism?

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> If we want advancement in medicine, can we really do it without deep collaboration between biology and computer science?

There's an entire field for that already, it's called bioinformatics.

I agree that Color Genomics is doing the right thing here. Of course any testing has the risk of misunderstandings and overtreatment. But they are aware of this and have counselors available to reduce the risk https://getcolor.com/learn/how-it-works

I think that medicine tends to treats us as patients instead of partners. Making testing much more affordable historically has done more good than bad. I think reducing the price of this testing by one or two orders of magnitude is a wonderful thing.