Is this what they mean by blood money?
I can only hope that this is still active, because I’m sure every homeless hospital patient in New York would be glad to know that his/her genome is worth five gallons of gas, four Sunday Times, three six packs, and a partridge in a freaking pear tree.
The hospital plans to offer a $20 incentive to any patient who donates an eight-milliliter vial of blood to a new Biobank, a warehouse of DNA and plasma that is a central component of the hospital’s Institute for Personalized Medicine. “Personalized medicine,” an approach that incorporates molecular analysis into managing a patient’s health, has been touted as the future of medicine ever since scientists completed the map of the human genome in 2003.
Woo hoo! Muchos gracias, Mt. Sinai! Can I give 16 mls and get $40? Can I bring my kids in, too? How much for my dog’s lymphocytes?
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."