Sequencing the Human Genome Was Supposed to Revolutionize Treatment of Disease – Here’s Why It Failed
5th March 2020
An emergency room physician, initially unable to diagnose a disoriented patient, finds on the patient a wallet-sized card providing access to his genome, or all his DNA. The physician quickly searches the genome, diagnoses the problem and sends the patient off for a gene-therapy cure. That’s what a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist imagined 2020 would look like when she reported on the Human Genome Project back in 1996.
This is why you don’t take your science from journalists.