Thanks to to the FIC, I attended a conference a couple of weeks ago titled the Future of Media Summit 2008. Here’s my report about it. The Future of Media 2008 from David Collin on Vimeo.

This third post in the FISpace Video Reports series is about the confrontation that has recently developed between companies providing personal genomics services and state medical testing authorities. Genetic information services with direct-to-consumer sales of various forms of genetic testing have been sent cease-and-desist demands by authorities in California and New York. So far the main gene services companies are ...

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The price of doing genomic sequencing and expression testing has dropped rapidly since the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003, and further decreases are ahead. So, naturally, web-based companies are promoting various DNA testing services directly to consumers. Whether it’s finding out about disease-linked genes, finding your ancestral "roots", or just "knowing more about you," the "personal genomics" ...