James Watson, who, with Francis Crick determined the structure of DNA, was presented recently with his own genome on a disk. Craig Venter, the innovator who raced the government's human genome project to a tie in 2000, has now decoded his own genome and is publishing a book about it. Does this herald the era of personal genomes? And, if so, what will that mean for society, for medicine, and for physicians?
James Watson, who, with Francis Crick determined the structure of DNA, was presented recently with his own genome on a disk. Craig Venter, the innovator who raced the government's human genome project to a tie in 2000, has now decoded his own genome and is publishing a book about it. Does this herald the era of personal genomes? And, if so, what will that mean for society, for medicine, and for physicians?
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