{"id":34460,"date":"2011-04-24T15:44:50","date_gmt":"2011-04-24T15:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/knowledge-of-one%e2%80%99s-own-mortality-gene-expression\/"},"modified":"2011-04-24T15:44:50","modified_gmt":"2011-04-24T15:44:50","slug":"knowledge-of-one%e2%80%99s-own-mortality-gene-expression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/knowledge-of-one%e2%80%99s-own-mortality-gene-expression.php","title":{"rendered":"Knowledge of one\u2019s own mortality | Gene Expression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my persistent slog beating the drums for open genomics I&rsquo;ve made the argument that <b>people should have the right to have more information about what their genetic code entails without the <i>necessary<\/i> and <i>mandatory<\/i> imprimatur of professional assent.<\/b> Not only that, but I&rsquo;d want to know myself. This is not a new found position which I&rsquo;ve come to of late. I recall 17 years ago having a classroom discussion on this topic in the wake of the tests for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Huntington's_disease\">Huntington&rsquo;s disease<\/a>, and I was certainly pro-knowledge. That being said, there were conditionals. My position was that this sort of information <b>would be the most useful for the young, because they could determine the arc of their life with full knowledge of their probable time window.<\/b> A friend argued that ultimately you should always live every day as if it is your last day anyhow, so why get tested? This is great as a superficial talking point, but as a concrete matter our decisions are conditioned on the expected number of alloted days we have.<\/p><p>A few years ago I heard about the story of the singer <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bobby_Darin\">Bobby Darin<\/a>, and it made me think of those issues. From ...<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/2881b_ql0Dfqf9Kqc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/2881b_k4BMf4qcEII\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my persistent slog beating the drums for open genomics I&rsquo;ve made the argument that people should have the right to have more information about what their genetic code entails without the necessary and mandatory imprimatur of professional assent. Not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/knowledge-of-one%e2%80%99s-own-mortality-gene-expression.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}