{"id":13208,"date":"2015-01-03T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T17:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=13208"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:09:02","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:09:02","slug":"every-patient-a-subject","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/every-patient-a-subject","title":{"rendered":"Every Patient a Subject"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/authors.jennifer_j_kulynych.html\" rel=\"author\">Jennifer J. Kulynych<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/authors.hank_greely.html\" rel=\"author\">Hank Greely<\/a> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/Slate.com\">Slate.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"text text-1 parbase section\">\n<p>Personalized medicine, the hoped-for use of the information in our genes to inform our medical care, may end up helping people live longer, healthier lives. Or it may not\u2014the jury is still out. But one thing is certain: As our unique genomic data enter our medical records, researchers will be tempted to use that invaluable resource. The results may be good for science but bad for patients\u2019 privacy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-2 text parbase section\">\n<p>In 2013, reporter Carole Cadwalladr, writing for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2013\/jun\/08\/genome-sequenced\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Guardian<\/em><\/a>, described her encounter with the paradox of personalized medicine: Unlocking one\u2019s genetic code may feel empowering, but the implications can be frightening. Cadwalladr agreed to let Illumina, a company that makes and uses gene-reading machines, sequence her DNA and use her genome in research in connection with an upcoming conference.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/technology\/future_tense\/2014\/12\/when_personalized_medicine_genomic_research_and_privacy_collide.single.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jennifer J. Kulynych and Hank Greely \u2014 Slate.com Personalized medicine, the hoped-for use of the information in our genes to inform our medical care, may end up helping people live longer, healthier lives. Or it may not\u2014the jury is still out. But one thing is certain: As our unique genomic data enter our medical [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46670,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13208\/revisions\/46670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}