Why weren’t we able to diagnose our own DNA before? I mean.. It is your DNA.
- Femke
- Jan 6, 2015
- 1 min read
The diagnose of your DNA is of great importance. It can track infections like HIV and Malaria. It can identify genetic mutations, which will tell you your likelihood to get cancer and it can help you track Ebola, which is very topically these days.
Despite all of this, the machines cost $20,000 at minimal. They aren’t available to the consumer, which is so important.
Open qPCR is a low price machine that can tell you all about your DNA. No hackers needed anymore, to get to your health status. The machine tracks Genotyping, food safety, research and health. This means, people who know they are in risk of diseases can track their own health.
This is a great movement in the self tracking system. We cannot only get an inside on our heart rate, or our blood pressure; we can look into our DNA, something so personal, that you should definitely know about yourself. It seems so weird that we never got to look in our own DNA before, while it is so close to you as a person yourself.
This innovation does show that we are growing towards a self caring and tracking society. This might have effect on the status of docters. Self diagnoses are something we are not sure how to handle. Google always shows us the most horrific results. We can only hope, that this DNA tracker is a little more realistic and a little less horrifying.
Tell us, would you want to take a sight in your own DNA?
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