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.
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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+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