Chinese Startup Wants to Predict Your Health With a Digital DNA Avatar
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Wang Jun.
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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 health-care test dummies for people. Asia’s biggest internet company believes he’s onto something.