Related: Check out Jorge Soto's talk on NPR's Ted Radio Hour: http://www.npr.org/programs/ted-radio-hour/ http://www.npr.org/programs/ted-radio-hour/ Soto is

Related: Check out Jorge Soto's talk on NPR's Ted Radio Hour: http://www.npr.org/programs/ted-radio-hour/ http://www.npr.org/programs/ted-radio-hour/ Soto is the CTO of Miroculus and they're using MicroRNA analysis to develop a cost effective way to provide early diagnosis for a variety of cancers. So far they've made progress with pancreatic, breast and IIRC two others. This is huge because usually cancer is discovered when you become symptomatic which is usually stage three or worse and it's much harder to treat then. If they can make this cost effective enough to be included in a regular doctor 'check up', then we may catch a large proportion of cancers early which makes treating them way easier.