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Burn your genes on CD -- for $500,000

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the put-that-on-gnutella dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Venter says he plans to offer the service, with the goal of burning individual human's entire DNA sequences onto shiny compact discs. It will cost about $500,000 per person, says the entrepreneurial scientist who helped decode the human genome. "

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  1. Ventner is suspect already... by oliphaunt · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Remember, this is the guy who swapped HIS OWN DNA with the "random sample" that was supposed to represent all of humanity. Maybe this DNA-on-a-CD scheme is what he wanted to do all along?

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