George M. Church - http://arep.med.harvard.edu/gmc/
Nebula Genomics - https://www.nebulagenomics.io/
Veritas Genetics - https://www.veritasgenetics.com/
Show Notes
• Nebula Genomics origins and Veritas Genetics traction
• Genotyping vs. Medical grade whole genome sequencing – prices, value, and utility
• Data ownership of personal genomes
• Personal Genome Project is an open source/open access collaboration to share genomic and phenotypic information with researchers
• 3 Axes: How close to useful medical genome (technically); who controls it (self or corporate); how useful on a day-to-day basis (understandability and interactivity).
• Genome sequencing technology adoption and Seat-belts
• What scientific and social problems are you most concerned or obsessed with today?
• Aging Reversal
• Human life extension limitations and perceptions
• How Genome sequencing is like the internet back in the late 1980s.
• Genome editing risks and biohacking ethics
• Equitable distribution of gene editing technology among all the people require lower cost
• What’s more important- Information Systems R&D or microbiology wet-lab experiments? How dependent are they on each other?
• How did you first hear about blockchain technology?
• Personal Genetics Education Project - PGed.org
• Cambrian explosion of blockchains
• Exploring possibilities of genomic research
• What is the basis of consciousness?
• George’s favorite scientists
Quick Quote:
Decoding the human genome sequence is the most significant undertaking that we have mounted so far in an organized way in all of science. I believe that reading our blueprints, cataloguing our own instruction book, will be judged by history as more significant than even splitting the atom or going to
the moon.
-Francis S. Collins [Director of the National Institute of Health (NIH)]
News Corner
23andMe announces $300M deal for your DNA with giant drug company GSK - https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/23andme-gsk-drugs/