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This week b5 media’s Health and Wellness channel is focusing on celebrities health.  Our focus is not on ‘tittle tattle’  and hot gossip about Angelina, Brad or ’Tomkat’ but rather a serious look at health issues that high profile individuals share with all of us. 
In the genetics world, our ‘celebrities’ are the likes of Craig Venter and James Watson – pioneering geneticists but basking in the eye of the media.
The race to sequence genomes has resulted in some major PR, particularly for Craig and James. 454 is sequencing James Watson’s genome and Craig has announced some of his results in PLoS.  TV …read more

Grace at Flu Patrol and I were talking about the new Archon X PRIZE for Genomics: $10 million for technology that can map 100 human genomes in 10 days. And they’re not afraid of harnessing the power of celebrity and wealth to publicize the project.
…another $1 million if the team can decode the genomes of 100 more people, including some celebrities and wealthy donors such as physicist Stephen Hawking, talk-show host Larry King, Google co-founder Larry Page and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.
Anybody else want in on that list of 100?
NB: The Archon X PRIZE FAQ has some great explanations about …read more