The ability to have information about your genetic makeup right at your fingertips is here and affordable. A Silicon Valley company known as Helix is launching an app to make it possible for people to download and explore their genetics. Experts say this new app could change how we perceive people as healthy .
Today we are talking about the DNA app store, NFL concussion research and technology and mental health.
Guests:
- Emily Mullin, associate editor for Biomedicine, MIT Technology Review
- Dr. Kevin Guskiewicz, neuroscientist and co-director, Matthew Gfeller Sport-Related Traumatic Brain Injury Research Center, The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
- Matt Vogl, executive director, National Behavioral Health Innovation Center, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus