Personal Genome Project
Articles about the Personal Genome Project
2009
Download Your Genomes on BitTorrent by Annalee Newitz, io9, March 11, 2009.
Genomes Offer Murky Clues to Personality, Physical Traits by Quinn Bowman, Online News Hour Extra, January 29, 2009.
My Genome, My Self by Steven Pinker, The New York Times Magazine, January 7, 2009.
2008
"Taking a Peek at the Experts' Genetic Secrets" by Amy Harmon, The New York Times, October 19, 2008.
"Personal Genome Project Participants Get First Look at their DNA" by Carey Goldberg, Boston Globe, October 20, 2008.
"Subjects' DNA Secrets to be Revealed" by Carey Goldberg, Boston Globe, October 20, 2008.
"Genomes on Display" by Emily Singer, Technology Review, October 20, 2008.
"Genome Fanatics to Post Own DNA Sequences on Web" by Denise Lavoie, Fox News, October 20, 2008.
"Harvard Genome Volunteers Say They'll Reveal Own DNA" by John Lauerman, Bloomberg News, October 20, 2008.
"Thousands Volunteer to Expose DNA Secrets to the World" by Ewen Callaway, New Scientist, October 21, 2008.
"Sharing Your Personal Genetic Map With the World" by Nancy Shute, U.S. News & World Report, October 20, 2008.
"A New Sort of Facebook: Posting Your Genes on the Web" by Sarah Rubenstein, Wall Street Journal blog entry, October 20, 2008.
"10 Bay Staters to Post DNA Online" by Sacha Pfeiffer, WBUR (NPR's Boston affiliate), October 20, 2008.
"Genome Database Will Link Genes, Traits in Public View" by Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post, October 18, 2008.
How the Personal Genome Project Could Unlock the Mysteries of Life (Wired Magazine, Aug 2008, Thomas Goetz)
Inside the Forgotten X Prize-the One That Can Save Your Life (Popular Mechanics, Apr 2008, Erik Sofge)
From genetic privacy to open consent (Nature Reviews Genetics, Apr 2008, Jeantine E. Lunshof, Ruth Chadwick, Daniel B. Vorhaus & George M. Church)
HMS Prof To Expand Genome Database (Harvard Crimson, Mar 2008, June Q. Wu)
2007
Your Personal Genome (Technology Review, Dec 2007, Emily Singer)
New Tech. Makes Sequencing Easy (Harvard Crimson, Dec 2007, Maeve T. Wang)
Group Led by Harvard's George Church Will Bid for Genomics X Prize (Xconomy, Dec 2007, Rebecca Zacks)
Genomics: Being Well Informed (Nature, Oct 2007, George Church)
Researcher says personal genetic testing nearly viable (North County Times, Oct 2007, Bradley J. Fikes)
Das offentliche Genom (Suddeutsche Zeitung, Aug 2007, Julia Karow) ('translation')
Full Disclosure (Wall St. Journal, July 2007, Esther Dyson)
Learning from Esther Dyson's Genome (Xconomy, July 2007, Erika Jonietz)
2006 and before
Church Hopes to Make DNA Decoding Accessible (Crimson, Aug 2006, Katherine Gray) Comments
The Personal Genome Project (Technology Review, Jan 2006, Emily Singer)
In a few years, knowing your own personal genome may improve your health (Knight Ridder, Jan 2006, Robert Boyd)
Genomes for All (George Church, Jan 2006, Scientific American)
The Personal Genome Project (Molecular Systems Biology, Dec 2005, George Church)Harvard's Church Calls for 'Open Source', Non-Anonymous Personal Genome Project (GenomeWeb, Nov 2005, Bernadette Toner)