{"id":19485,"date":"2010-05-01T17:30:05","date_gmt":"2010-05-01T17:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/genome_seen_as_medical_crystal_ball\/"},"modified":"2010-05-01T17:30:05","modified_gmt":"2010-05-01T17:30:05","slug":"genome_seen_as_medical_crystal_ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=19485","title":{"rendered":"Genome Seen As Medical Crystal Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Stanford scientist Steve Quake was only the fifth person in the world to have his entire genetic code -\u201d\u201c his genome \u201d\u201d spelled out last summer. Now he claims to be the first to use it to find out just what diseases he&#8217;s at risk for, and what he should do about it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been an instructive exercise. He and his colleagues say it holds many lessons for how to handle the flood of genomic information that&#8217;s on the horizon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think the information can help people live better, but it won&#8217;t do it all by itself,&#8221; says Hank Greely, a Stanford ethicist involved with the project. &#8220;Just dumping data on people will not lead to better results.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=126396839\">Read or listen to it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stanford scientist Steve Quake was only the fifth person in the world to have his entire genetic code -\u201d\u201c his genome \u201d\u201d spelled out last summer. Now he claims to be the first to use it to find out just<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=19485\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,104,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-health-medicine","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}