I hear so much about genetic testing these days that I’ve always wanted to find out what that experience is like for people who had the test done. Sure, it’s painless (just a saliva or cheek scrape will do). But more than the test itself, I want to know what your life is like these days.
What was it like to know you are at risk for this X disease? What did you do with your results? Are you now eating, living better? Do you feel trapped, empowered, confused?
I do want to know. Maybe I’m the coward who …read more

  Now that accessing your genetic information is cheaper than buying a Google Smartphone, now what? What can you get from it? How can you use it? Just as important, but less asked – how do you protect it?
The journal "Nature" joins the debate with a full online issue devoted to the personal genome revolution and its implications. For a fee or for free, you can squeeze more information out of the SNP data or full sequence you got from the commercial genome services you paid for initially. For example, you can get an idea of your risk for …read more