{"id":9138,"date":"2018-06-01T16:16:47","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T23:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9138"},"modified":"2018-06-10T16:24:17","modified_gmt":"2018-06-10T23:24:17","slug":"renting-your-dna-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2018\/06\/01\/renting-your-dna-cool\/","title":{"rendered":"Renting Your DNA, Cool!"},"content":{"rendered":"

from the San Diego Union-Tribune<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Need a little extra money? You’ll soon be able to sell and rent your DNA<\/h1>\n

By Gary Robbins<\/p>\n

\"GeneA technician at a Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment lab in Denver extracts DNA for whole genome sequencing. Such testing could revolutionize everything from medical care to agriculture. (P. Solomon Banda \/ AP)<\/em><\/p>\n

Feel like earning a little extra money and maybe improving your health at the same time?<\/p>\n

Consumers will soon be able to sell or rent their DNA to scientists who are trying to fight diseases as different as dementia, lupus and leukemia.<\/p>\n

Bio-brokers want to collect everything from someone\u2019s 23andMe and Ancestry.com gene data to fully sequenced genomes.<\/p>\n

The data would be sold or rented to biomedical institutes, universities and pharmaceutical companies, generating money for consumers who share their genetic secrets.<\/p>\n

[ click to continue reading in the Union-Tribune<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from the San Diego Union-Tribune Need a little extra money? You’ll soon be able to sell and rent your DNA By Gary Robbins A technician at a Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment lab in Denver extracts DNA for whole genome sequencing. Such testing could revolutionize everything from medical care to agriculture. (P. Solomon […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}