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links 5/21/25: https://roamresearch.com/#/app/srcpublic/page/05-21-2025

https://www.hathitrust.org/ books online
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_consumption when people are more interested in the sorts of "worldbuilding" you could put in a database than in stories themselves
how many people get personalized medicine?
- https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/aug/18/rise-in-dna-tests-used-to-claim-citizenship-of-other-countries-brexit-eu more than 40M people worldwide have gotten a genetic tests
- https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20231004-these-people-took-dna-tests-the-results-changed-their-lives 26 millions of Americans have gotten a genetic test
- https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/03/28/nx-s1-5342632/concierge-membership-primary-care-doctor-shortage-rural-health-access there are 12,000 concierge medicine practices in the US
- https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220607005447/en/The-Institute-for-Functional-Medicine-Releases-2020-2021-Annual-Report-Highlighting-Impact-of-Critically-Important-Mission-Driven-Work there are 1800 certified functional medicine practitioners in the US
- https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/genetic-testing-market-report the global genetic testing market is $11.71B
- the global direct-to-consumer testing market is $1.7B https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/direct-to-consumer-genetic-testing-market-report
- https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)01924-X/fulltext the global market for direct-to-consumer medical testing is projected to be $9B by 2033
Pharma proteomics Project with the UK Biobank shows lots of proteomic disease associations
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-03142-z.pdf
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06592-6#MOESM1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occludin OCLN is associated with depression; something to do with gut permeability maybe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GDF15 GDF15 rises sharply w age, probably a compensatory response to inflammation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elastin ELN goes up in the blood w age, as it leaves blood vessels that are becoming more rigid
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3159481/ PEA is a proteomics technique that's a lot cheaper to multiplex than ELISA or mass spec; uses tiny quantities of antibodies to barcode proteins and then sequences the barcodes.
- https://olink.com/technology/pea-technology-video

Huh, never heard of database consumption. It's a cool term because if you read it Victorian, you could also be suffering from (database) consumption!

Yeah I constantly read various wikis for stories or games I like. I'm loremaxxing.

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