Millionaires Lining Up to Buy Personal Gene Maps. This is kind of cool kind of weird. I suppose the people who are buying these are trying to stave off death. Kind of like the rich guy in the movie Contact. I wonder if you could make a nice piece of art work from photos of your own DNA. That would be an interesting piece to talk about when guests are over. "And over here is my screwed up gene from my father's side that gives me a 50% of a heart attack in my 40's...". ;)

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