Cons and pros about sequencing your own genome and what you can actually right now…
Cons and pros about sequencing your own genome and what you can actually right now at this moment do with these kind of information/data. Quite a nice read I'd say.
What happened when I had my genome sequenced
It is 10 years since the human genome was first sequenced. In that time the cost per person has fallen from $2.7bn to just $5,000. Revealing our full DNA will revolutionise medicine – but it will also raise huge ethical questions about what we do with the information …
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4 Replies to “Cons and pros about sequencing your own genome and what you can actually right now…”
+Lorna Salgado you might like to read this 🙂
"In the future, people like Angelina might not have to have a double mastectomy. You might have a sensor in your blood which at the first sign of plasma would send a cancer ringtone to your phone, and that is eminently do-able."
Dank u Sander! Fascinating article.
This comment sounds about right 🙂
"It's a very exciting time to be a geneticist. But then a geneticist's life is always pretty damn exciting."
http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.103680