TalkMedia Round-Up: Personal Genome Services 23andMe, deCODEme, Navigenics
As promised, here’s a round-up of media on the new personal genome services.
Commentary:
- Wired’s cover story by Thomas Goetz: 23AndMe Will Decode Your DNA for $1,000. Welcome to the Age of Genomics
- The New York Times, Amy Harmon’s early testing experience: My Genome, Myself: Seeking Clues in DNA
- The Economist, to see how others see us: Within Spitting Distance
- The Guardian, with an interesting tangent on the Native American reverence for spit: Google gives new gene mapping service a bit of spit and polish
Straight news coverage:
- The Washington Post/Reuters News: Google-funded 23andMe offers $999 DNA test
- The San Jose Mercury News, mentions GeneTree as an established, ancestry-only social networking competitor: Start-up enables users to examine their own DNA
- The Times of India: Now, check out your DNA online
The media is coming in fairly mixed. So how about you? Would you take one of these tests?
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