Diabetes and Data: Discovering Drug Targets and Biomarkers
Nowadays science is often driven by patterns in big data. What can we learn from the data and how does finding patterns help us understand chronic diseases better? And, where do we start? Perhaps we start with human genetics research on a little island in the North Atlantic with about 350,000 inhabitants. Iceland is a small society with a healthcare system rooted in clinical and health registries. As a result, people have been contributing to biomedical research over the years by sharin...