One challenge for current medical research, and especially genetic research, is that most people with extensive health records are sick or in some way unhealthy. We know much more about the sick than about the healthy, let alone the super-healthy. Therefore, I'd like to see both...
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Esther Dyson recently spent five months in Russia training as a backup cosmonaut with the Russian Space Agency (via Space Adventures, in which she is an investor). She is on the board of 23andMe, a start-up that genotypes individuals and lets them analyze their own data or compare it with friends' on a carefully secured, private website. And she has published her own full genome on the Internet through the Personal Genome Project, where she is also a director.