NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The New York State Department of Health has sent warning letters to 23 firms involved in offering consumer genomics services and genetic tests to consumers, telling them that they need a permit to offer such tests and services, a department spokesperson told GenomeWeb Daily News today.
Jeez, you’d think these companies were trying to hold a parade or something.
I work as the Science Editor for 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."
April 21st, 2008 at 4:16 pm
LOL…..Naw, just practicing medicine without licenses…
-Steve
www.thegenesherpa.blogspot.com
April 21st, 2008 at 10:34 pm
BTW…you need a better picture on google.
-Steve
www.thegenesherpa.blogspot.com