【Network】 Chinese entrepreneurs Editor's note: The latest issue of "Connection" cover story revealed the Google co-founder Sergey Brin (Sergey Brin) body lurks a dangerous mutant cells, leading to Parkinson's disease the possibility of high and Brin to combat the disease gene to make the various efforts. Every few days, Google co-founder Sergey Brin have to drive in after work to a swimming pool, 3-meter springboard standing, watching the water, then dive into the water. Diving on the Boolean is a challenge, will cause great physical and mental fatigue. Breen said: "Diving process itself is very short, but very intense. Really make the heart rate."

Another advantage of diving, that is, every dive, it is a kind of offset on the Bryn, offset is his day in the future the risk of suffering from Parkinson's disease. Bryn every cell in the body, are called hidden LRRK2 gene, located on chromosome 12 is a high correlation with Parkinson's disease mutation gene.

The power of initiative

Not every body had Parkinson's disease patients carrying LRRK2 mutation carriers are not variants will eventually suffer from Parkinson's disease. But the carrier's chances of suffering from this disease will reach 30% -75%, compared to an average American likely to suffer from Parkinson's disease and only 1%. The Breen himself that his own DNA to the incidence of five percent chance.

This is the reason for Bryn to do physical training: Parkinson's disease is still difficult to understand the disease, but studies have found that some will be contributed to the low prevalence rate of behavior, including physical training on the row in the first place. Coffee intake was associated with decreased risk of incidence of a positive correlation, but Breen can not stand the taste of coffee and decided to drink a cup of tea every day.

Through the platform diving, and a cup of tea every day, Breen hopes of confrontation Parkinson's disease, to reduce their risk of disease.

"Suppose, through reasonable diet and physical training, etc., I can reduce the risk of the disease by half, a reduction to 25%." Breen then predicted that "advances in neuroscience will further reduce this risk by half I have Parkinson's disease, the odds dropped to about 13% of. "need to be reminded that these all are only speculating, but given the data from the Boolean approach and interpretation point of view, he did very persuasive.

"Google-style" solution

Of course, Brin is not just an ordinary 36-year-old middle-aged. As Google co-founder, he has 15 billion U.S. dollars net worth, which increased to combat the disease as Boolean alternative.

After learning they carry the gene LRRK2 mutation, the Boolean invest 50 million U.S. dollars for Parkinson's disease research, he thought the money would help to accelerate the research process. In view of drug treatment and cure of increasing, Breen will adjust their overall risk of illness to "not more than 10%." That is still 10 times the average, but his genetic predisposition for the checks and balances, the already great progress.

It sounds so practical, so obvious, that people overlooked a startling fact: Many philanthropists have funded is that they have been diagnosed diseases. However, funding of scientific research based on genetic test and to avoid the risk of the disease hope the first place, Breen can be considered unprecedented.

He noted the reasons for the practice of another. Bu Tongyu Business School type of research, Boolean Cai Yong's is another entirely different path, he's performed using computing and large data sets Qudong, based on the Suanfa his emotional and Google right faith in the capacity calculation. "Medical research steps and the steps I used the Internet less the same. We shall observe things, to collect large amounts of information, if we find a certain pattern, it can be harvested."

In other words, Boolean tend to abandon centuries of scientific epistemology, instead of using Google-like approach: first, data collection, a further assumption, and then find out the response to it. This Boolean terms, financial abundance, is technically feasible.

But sometimes, we will find ourselves caught in the same position with the Breen, in the case of no solution, choose the exercise, changes in diet, waiting for technological advances while trying everything possible. From this sense, Brin's story is not the story of a billionaire, but exceptionally ordinary.

(This article comes from the "Connection", the contents of abridged)