Study Shows Why You Might, and Might Not, Want to Know Your Genome
By Daniel J. DeNoon
April 29, 2010 — Do you really want to know all of the information encoded in your genes? A thought-provoking new study shows why you might — and why you might not.
It’s not science fiction. It now costs less than $10,000 to learn your own personal genome. Soon it will cost no more than $1,000. What might you learn? Ask Stephen Quake, PhD, a Stanford University bioengineer.
Recently, Quake and colleagues showed that a whole human genome — his own — could be unraveled by a single technician using a single machine. Read more…
