20 years after the Human Genome Project, Richard Gibbs shares his thoughts on Gattaca, tech breakthroughs, and more.
. Back before the project, genetics and genomics were somewhat separate. Genetics is the field of study of inheritance and its consequences and its attributes, and the changes in biology that are manifest by what happens in inheritance, all the way through to evolution. It’s a big and multi-faceted area. And in the beginning, genomics was quite technical.
“I remember that, as we were wrapping up our genome factory, I took the entire group to see Gattaca at the theater. And it was quite profound.”How do you see the field of genetics influencing our lives in the years to come?Well, I think it’s the same answer as it has been since the beginning of the Genome Project, if not before then. And that is, if we can understand how to build therapeutics, we can do better therapeutics. That’s the real driver.
What I do think is very compelling today is the real-life stories I hear from people who have done these ancestry testing services. You know, they’ll find family or extended family that they didn’t know about. And that kind of gets them interested. So that’s a positive thing.
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