Chapter 12
Genomics
What won’t we be able to cure?
DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.
Bill Gates, The Road Ahead
Google’s cofounder Sergey Brin had his genes decoded by genetic testing company 23andMe.1 The results gave him reasons to be concerned. ‘The exact implications of this are not entirely clear,’ he wrote on his blog. ‘Nonetheless it is clear that I have a markedly higher chance of developing Parkinson’s in my lifetime than the average person.’2
In relation, no doubt partly influenced by these results, but also as a result of his mother having Parkinson’s since 1999, Brin has donated over $100 million3 to help discover a cure for the disease. He wrote: ‘This leaves me in a rather ...
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