Open source DNA
Monday, August 31, 2009 - 12:29
in Psychology & Sociology
In the chilling science fiction movie Gattaca, Ethan Hawke stars as a man with "inferior genes" who assumes another's genetic identity to escape a dead-end future. The 1997 film illustrates the very real fear swirling around today's genome research -- fear that private genetic information could be used negatively against us.