{"id":9514,"date":"2013-12-20T21:06:45","date_gmt":"2013-12-21T05:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=9514"},"modified":"2013-12-20T21:06:45","modified_gmt":"2013-12-21T05:06:45","slug":"singularity-reading-our-genes-like-computer-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/singularity-reading-our-genes-like-computer-code","title":{"rendered":"Singularity: Reading our genes like computer code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"byline\"><span class=\"byline-name\">By Jane Wakefield<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>He knows this because when he had his genetic code read, he found out that he was likely to get age-related macular degeneration (AMD).<\/p>\n<p>The disease leaves the sufferer with a very narrow field of vision.<\/p>\n<p>As head of bio-technology at the world\u2019s most futuristic learning institution, Singularity University, he found the news \u201cburdensome\u201d at first.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had never heard of AMD, I had no family history of it and in many ways it was the worst story you can get in genetic diagnosis, \u2018Here\u2019s something that you didn\u2019t know about which we can\u2019t do anything about,\u2019\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-25125574\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jane Wakefield He knows this because when he had his genetic code read, he found out that he was likely to get age-related macular degeneration (AMD). The disease leaves the sufferer with a very narrow field of vision. As head of bio-technology at the world\u2019s most futuristic learning institution, Singularity University, he found the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1502,11,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-data","category-biotech-medical","category-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9514","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=9514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}