Bloomberg.com reports that Google has invested an unspecified amount in George Church's Personal Genome Project, which plans to sequence protein-coding regions from the genomes of 100,000 humans and link the sequence data with information on health and other traits (such as facial and body measurements). This is in line with Google's $3.9 million investment in 23andMe; this is a company that clearly sees the impact that analysing genetic variation will have on human health, and wants to position itself at the fore-front of that wave.
The Bloomberg article is well worth a read for various other useful snippets of information. For instance, I liked Church's argument for why the first participants in the PGP are willing to take the risk of freely sharing their genetic information with the rest of the world: "The payoff is an unobstructed view of the next revolution in medicine".
HT: Genome Technology Online
Saturday, March 1, 2008
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