Science as Search: Sergey Brin to Fund Parkinson's Study | Wired Science from Wired.com

March 12 2009, 2:43pm

Science as Search: Sergey Brin to Fund Parkinson's Study | Wired Science from Wired.comSource: blog.wired.comThe ideal combination of the internet and science is to put data (lots of data) into a readily searched database. The hypothesis becomes a search: Want to know what people    This is what happens when a wealthy man finds out he is genetically predisposed to a disease. Here's an idea: let's get 23andMe to sequence all the richest people in the world. If they find out that they are predisposed to something nasty, maybe they'll pay to get it fixed.