Esther Dyson is a Director of 23andMe and an investor in numerous Internet, private aviation, space and health care ventures.  She has also shared her genetic data, medical records and other personal information with the research community and the general public as a research subject for the Personal Genome Project, an initiative led by Harvard’s [...]

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When Jon Huss and his colleagues proposed a gene wiki on Wikipedia last month, they were following previous attempts to take advantage of collaborative technology and let researchers share information gleaned from their work.
In the current issue of Nature Genetics though, Massachusetts Institute of Technology-based researcher Robert Hoffman argues that scientists who write for wikis [...]

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