CGS-authored
The flash drive comes in a silver box, sunken into a bed of black velvet, shining out, fittingly, like a rare gem. Fail 10 times to provide the correct password and the drive will self-destruct. The entire sequence of its new owner's genome is inside this piece of brushed steel, all of his or her DNA. The Cambridge-based company selling the drive, Knome, is the only company in the world to offer anything like it. Only a handful of people in the world have one. For now.
The man responsible for Knome and the services it offers-services that will fundamentally alter the way we think about healthcare-is George Church, a 6-foot-5, bushy-bearded Harvard Medical School professor and the patriarch of personal genomics. His coming movement will wrest the genome from research labs and place it in the hands of the people, much as computers went from government and academia to being an inextricable part of daily life. The newer and faster technologies Church and his ilk are developing have already dropped what Knome charges for sequencing from $350,000 to $100,000...
The man responsible for Knome and the services it offers-services that will fundamentally alter the way we think about healthcare-is George Church, a 6-foot-5, bushy-bearded Harvard Medical School professor and the patriarch of personal genomics. His coming movement will wrest the genome from research labs and place it in the hands of the people, much as computers went from government and academia to being an inextricable part of daily life. The newer and faster technologies Church and his ilk are developing have already dropped what Knome charges for sequencing from $350,000 to $100,000...