Leave Your Genome to Science

Here’s a question: When people agree to donate their body to science, will their genome be part of the deal? And will that make people even less inclined to donate?

Note: Google “leave your body to science” and three paid ads come up, including one for LifeLegacy.org, an organization that organizes and encourages whole body donation. Curiously, there’s a link to “Testamonials“. Uh, how is that possible?

Published by: tgoetz on July 24th, 2007 | Filed under Misc.




4 Responses to “Leave Your Genome to Science”

  1. Ricardo Vidal Says:
    July 24th, 2007 at 5:51 pm

    Those testimonials just made me laugh… the voices from the other side.

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