For the August issue of Men’s Journal, I volunteered as an early guinea pig for a genome scanning service offered by the California-based company Navigenics. My genetic proclivity towards any of a couple dozen diseases was less than depressing but mildly alarming — and perhaps also completely unreliable. Here’s a .pdf of the story.
Navigenics and another genetic testing company, 23andMe, both just obtained their official licenses to operate in California.
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You can catch me over at Salon’s blog The Machinist this week, guest blogging about various topics of at least tangential relevance to the blog’s general subject matter. Stop by and watch the commenters carve me up as I try to subsist without my usual thousands of words allowance, 3 month deadlines, and army of fact-checkers and copy editors…
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