Saturday, February 14, 2009

You can (not) die



The following video on genetics outlines the future of the industry.
With the sequencing of the human genome made inexpensive a new wealth of
potential and danger emerges. In the video Schuler predicts the price tag
of sequencing a genome to drop to $5,000 in the next 5 years.

Complete Genomics of Mountain View has just announced that it would provide genome sequencing for $5,000, as of June 2009.

Schuler ends with the following:

"if you can stay healthy for the 20 years, you'll see 150 maybe 300(years old)"

I can't decide whether I fear DEATH or IMMORTALITY more?

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