Forbes November 25, 2019
400 million people globally suffer from a rare disease. This is greater than the population of the United States, yet the ominous figures don’t end there. According to the Global Genes organization, eight out of ten rare diseases are caused by a faulty gene, yet it takes an average of 4.8 years to arrive at an accurate diagnosis. This is part of the reason why 30% of children with a rare disease won’t live to see their fifth birthday.
Neither is this situation helped by the fact that 95% of rare diseases lack an FDA-approved treatment. However, while the rarity of rare diseases means they’re often neglected by the medical establishment, artificial intelligence and machine learning have been emerging in...
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