They asked us to put a tape ruler on our foreheads before they took 3D images of our faces in order to have a baseline measurement of our facial features. And to, you know, make it easier for law enforcement…
I work as an Assistant Professor in the Duke University Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy (although this site and its content are my own).
In 2007 I became the fourth subject in Harvard geneticist George Church's Personal Genome Project. As the PGP moves forward, I am chronicling the dawn of personal genomics, that is, people obtaining their genomic information for whatever reason(s) and figuring out what to do with it. I am interested in the relevant technologies and especially the attendant privacy and other ethical/legal/social issues.
This blog may also discuss some of my non-genome interests or, to paraphrase Dwight Yoakam, "Guitars, Cadillacs, hillbilly music, etc etc."
The header image comes from the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange's multimedia performance piece, "Ferocious Beauty: Genome."
October 4th, 2007 at 5:57 pm
I always knew craniometry would make a comeback! And what did the phrenologist say???
October 15th, 2007 at 3:11 am
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