Data wants your body

01 July 2016 - 09:00
By Bloomberg

Wang Jun spent 16 years expanding the world's understanding of what living things are made of - sequencing genomes including those of the giant panda and potatoes.Now he's attempting to build on that: using DNA as one component to create online avatars that could act as healthcare test dummies for people.

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