Category Archives: Your personal health

The one video every life scientist should watch

By Deepak Singh | Published: May 7, 2010

Quite honestly, everyone should watch this. I had the privilege of seeing Josh Sommer talk at the recent Sage Congress. That talk left me thinking, and drove home both the value of what we do and the challenge before us. I won’t say anything else. Just watch the video

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Throwing down the hammer

By Deepak Singh | Published: March 14, 2010

I haven’t written about Personal Genomics in a long time. Quite honestly with all the time spent tracking the technology side of things, the consumer facing bit has been deprioritized. Of course, when you have folks like Daniel MacArthur around, you don’t really need to do that much. In a great, acerbic, post, Daniel throws [...]

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Your personal health: Free means education

By Deepak Singh | Published: October 7, 2008

One more post today. Russ Altman talks about how the cost of genotyping is asymptoting to free (eerie parallels to Chris Anderson’s Free). The post comes on the heels of the launch of Complete Genomics and that they will enable a $5000 genome in 2010. But that’s not the part that I want to talk [...]

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Your personal health: My fair PHR

By Deepak Singh | Published: October 7, 2008

Image via WikipediaRecent visits to various medical facilities have been accompanied by filling up a lot of long forms, essentially filling up the same information. It is highly inefficient, and frankly a waste of time, especially if you have to fill up a form “if anything has changed since your last visit”. Talk about not [...]

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Your personal health: 23andme v2

By Deepak Singh | Published: September 8, 2008

Image via CrunchBase, source unknown Did 23andme just cut prices? Update: Apparently they did A new blog post suggests that they’ve dropped prices to $399 (unless I am being completely dense and that’s an upsell). That information is part of the launch of 23andme v2. With the introduction of v2, our next-generation analytical platform, 23andMe [...]

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