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Even Google Loves George

Mar 01, 2008

Most of this article from Bloomberg won't be news to GTO readers, but this might: Google has donated to George Church's Personal Genome Project. The rest of the article covers Google's health records initiative and the concept behind the PGP, so if you haven't caught up on those, it serves as a nice primer.

 

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