artemis67 writes "Technology development guru George Church is playing a salutary social role with his Personal Genome Project. Church is in the process of gathering phenotypic data and sequencing portions of the genomes of ten volunteers. He intends to study how the genes of these people influence their phenotypes, and to make those data public. Church's point is simple: information, including genetic information, can and should be freely available. Whether or not one agrees with him, society had better be ready to deal with the results of such research, which is occurring against a background of explosive growth in the availability of genetic information. This past week, President Bush signed the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, which would protect people from being discriminated against by health insurers or employers on the basis of their genetic information." Link to Original Source
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