Aug

20

My genetic future

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For the August issue of Men’s Journal, I volunteered as an early guinea pig for a genome scanning service offered by the California-based company Navigenics. My genetic proclivity towards any of a couple dozen diseases was less than depressing but mildly alarming — and perhaps also completely unreliable. Here’s a .pdf of the story.

Navigenics and another genetic testing company, 23andMe, both just obtained their official licenses to operate in California.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

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Aug

11

For one week only!

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You can catch me over at Salon’s blog The Machinist this week, guest blogging about various topics of at least tangential relevance to the blog’s general subject matter. Stop by and watch the commenters carve me up as I try to subsist without my usual thousands of words allowance, 3 month deadlines, and army of fact-checkers and copy editors…

This entry was posted on Monday, August 11th, 2008

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I'm Evan Ratliff, a freelance journalist and writer for Wired, The New Yorker, Outside, The New York Times Magazine, and other publications.

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