If you volunteer for Harvard Medical School professor George Church’s Personal Genome Project, you’d better be ready to have your full medical records along with your full gene sequence (once completed) made public. But why would anyone want that kind of exposure? Famous venture capitalist Esther Dyson explained her reasons for being one of Church’s … Continue reading “Learning from Esther Dyson’s Genome”
Author: Erika Jonietz
Erika is a senior editor for MIT's Technology Review, where she manages the magazine's annual "TR35" list of top innovators under the age of 35 and programs the Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT. Despite a fondness for Boston, she fled for the warmer climes of her native Texas and currently lives in Austin. She holds a bachelor's degree in biology from MIT and a master's in science journalism from Boston University.