Genes on public display (Image: Beatrice de Gea)
George Church helped develop the technology that made sequencing human genomes affordable. Now he wants volunteers to open up their medical records. He tells Peter Aldhous why privacy is an outdated concept in medical research and how Ozzy Osbourne is a science educator
You head the . How will this lead towards personalised medicine?
The goal is to collect genome, environment and trait data from as many people as possible, and provide that as an open resource for research. For example, someone who specialises in prosopagnosia – the…
