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The Weird Age of “Previvors” Is Coming

by Brian Gallagher Mar 12, 2017 1 minuto

Siddhartha Mukherjee has an arresting thought experiment: What if, along with your familiar elementary-school report card, you had a genetic report card—one that read out your propensity for getting each letter grade in each subject? If you get an A

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