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So I Hopped on My HoverCraft and Sped to the Doctor's Office ...

Oct 22, 2007

Over at the Public Rambling blog, Pedro Beltrao envisions the future of personalized medicine, where people will be able to have their genome sequenced in order to find out what diseases they’re most likely to get. It's a fun post that reads like a chapter in a sci-fi novel. After he's done with the daydream about life in the genomes-for-all age, Pedro comes back to 2007 to list several recent articles and blog posts related to personal genomics.

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