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Pardis Sabeti Reveals the Future of Genomics
Assistant Professor, Harvard University; Musician
Harvard genomics professor Pardis Sabeti on the revolution happening in your body.
June 30, 2008 | In Health & Medicine, Science & Tech
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Assistant Professor, Harvard University; Musician
Harvard genomics professor Pardis Sabeti on the revolution happening in your body.
June 30, 2008 | In Health & Medicine, Science & Tech
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John Hammonds on April 17, 2009, 2:31 AM
Im an aspiring biotechnology major and I must say this is pretty interesting. Sequencing is a good step into figuring out the fuction of that good majority of unknown gene coding.
I would also think the matter of figuring out how genes have changed would be interesting, and that therapy for problems realted with genetics would be a major ethical issue since we don’t have natural selection, and the whole matter delves into philosophy.
PS Contact is one of my favorite movies. :)
colin day on June 19, 2009, 2:08 PM
DNA information and its use can both help and hurt people. I see the the benefits in determining possible future disease and thus helping people plan and make health decisions, but I am not really sure if I want to know that I have a 50% chance of developing an incurable ailment. Are employers and insurers going to try to force employees undergo DNA testing to weed out people with possible future health problems? I see privacy issues here too. Amazing how people will use fantastic technology to try to discriminate. I predict genetic info cases will be making their way to the Supreme Court in the near future.
Lee . on August 13, 2009, 2:55 PM
Pardis Sabeti’s profile on NOVA scienceNOW
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/0302/04.html
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