Know Thyself, Cheaply
In 2007 Knome charged $350,000 to sequence a human genome. Today it charges $40,000. [Knome CEO] Jorge Condo predicts that by 2015 the price will have fallen below $1,000. Complete Genomics charges about $10,000 to sequence more than 90% of a genome. It too predicts that the cost will drop below $1,000 within five years.
See the full article on genome sequencing here.
To use Niklas Luhmann’s social systems perspective, we may say that, as the scientific system evolves, the political system and the legal system will react to such a change and create regulations naturally. The question is: how much will those regulations negatively interfere with the consumer freedom and the economic system overall?
And Ozzy Osbourne is, indeed, a medical miracle. See the original article.
Actually, after shelling out your 1K, you will not really know yourself. You will have a mountain of data that nay or nay not help cure an illness.
Medical experts only have a vague knowledge of the role genes play in health and disease. There are other variables — that switch genes off and on that can cause identical twins with the same genes to have different diseases.
I agree with Ken. I’m not sure what I will own after I buy it.