“I Don’t Need No Board-Certified Medical Geneticist” just didn’t have the same ring
Personal genomics has taken a bit of a beating lately, mainly at the hands of the biomedical establishment. One day soon, I promise I will take up these issues on their merits. Meantime, it seems to me there’s only one appropriate response: Theme Song! It comes to you courtesy of the late great Steve Marriott and a post-Frampton incarnation of Humble Pie, circa 1971. So, with apologies to my friends in the healing professions, I say, Rock on, my diploid brothers and sisters:
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."
March 21st, 2008 at 12:27 am
Love it!!!!!
-Steve
www.helixhealth.org
March 28th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
Gene Genie is up:
http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/03/gene_genie_24_1.php