I think there are people who's lives have been saved because of the study of the genome.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The goal of getting your genome done is not to tell you what you will die from, but it's how to learn how to take action to prevent disease.
The overall view of the human genome project has been one of great excitement and positive press, but there are people who have concerns that are quite reasonable, and they are frightened of things they don't understand.
I think that the idea of people wanting to steal your genome remains a little bit in the world of science fiction.
If I'm walking down the riverbank, and a man is drowning, even if I don't know how to swim very well, I feel this urge that the right thing to do is to try to save that person. Evolution would tell me exactly the opposite: preserve your DNA. Who cares about the guy who's drowning?
There is a long history of how DNA sequencing can bring certainty to people's lives.
The only thing that can save us as a species is seeing how we're not thinking about future generations in the way we live.
Even if we never cure a single disease, the Human Genome Project and other ventures will have been worth it.
I really think people should live to be 100 years old pretty much disease-free. I think that's our genetic potential.
A doctor can save maybe a few hundred lives in a lifetime. A researcher can save the whole world.
Living in your genome is the history of our species.