GenomeMatchMe: Personalized Genomic Lifestyle Guidance

From serious stuff like cancer screenings, Pharmacogenomics and Microbiome to groovier, lifestyle-optimization guidance for exercise, diet, skin care, ancestry, wine preferences (!) and intimate partner compatibility (!!), GenomeMatchMe is a one-stop shop for personal genomics. Much more utility and interest than services like 23andMe. Seems to be packaged as a corporate perk in the tech employee space.

... and to think he died of a curable cancer

Watch: Emerald Cloud Lab

Vimeo here. Run biotech experiments without leaving your workstation. Protein is the new programming language.

Currently my favorite company on the planet

Ginkgo Bioworks. Custom-tailored organisms to do all kinds of stuff. Read.

Cambrian Explosion

Austen Heinz, CEO of Cambrian Genomics, a company that sells built-to-order DNA strands, says you can imagine what will happen if biotech becomes as easy as software to try and to test. An “explosion of biotech companies is coming,” he says.

Wired Magazine: A Marked Man.

Man suffers for decades with cancer of the kidneys. Nothing helps. Gets tumor sequenced. Discovers the cancer in his kidney is actually pancreatic cancer. Man changes cancer treatment regimen, and lives. Full story in Wired.

How To Use MyGenomeBox

See the YouTube video here.