A book, website, portal and multimedia program exploring what cutting-edge technologies in personalized medicine can tell us about individual health and life -- past, present and future: genes, environment, brain and body. A joint project with the Center for Life Science Policy, University of California at Berkeley.
 
EXPERIMENTAL MAN: THE BOOK

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Experimental Man:
What one man's body reveals about his future, your health, and our toxic world
(John Wiley & Sons)
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Experimental Man Series: Portfolio.com
 
Experimental Man: Part I (Body), Part II (Brain): Discover Magazine
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Your Brain in a State of Fear
(Aired June 24, 2008)

This website is designed to be a resource for people wanting to learn more about personalized medicine — the tailoring of diagnostics and health care to individuals — and its implications. It features the results of one man’s extensive testing of his genes, environmental impacts, brain and body, along with commentary, analysis and musings about the usefulness and the impact of this information on individual human beings like you. The effort is to explain and humanize a new wave of science that is likely to profoundly change our vision of our health, and who we are.

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Share your tests or thoughts on the blog, or email them to david@experimentalman.com.

THE EXPERIMENTAL MAN PROJECT will be working with the new Center for Life Science Policy at the University of California at Berkeley to maintain this site as a resource for the public and for scientists wanting to download information, data, articles and thoughts about their own work or results on the topics of genes, environment, brain and body.

Educational Materials: What is personalized medicine, and how will it impact you?

Experimental Man Portal
Labs and companies that have participated in the project

Featured Site:

MyDigitalHealth.com
A case study about a new algorithm for predicting a heart attack from Entelos, Inc. Read about the first individual to have multiple risk factors for heart attack (genes, blood chemistry, CT scan, carotid ultrasound) assessed and profiled against a large population of patients. Article about the test and results.

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Thanks to everyone who helped with the project!

Experimental Man Index
A single man gets an extensive, high-tech exam

Liters of blood drawn ... 1.7
Hours in an MRI ... 22
Gigabytes of data produced ... 100+
Number of chemical toxins tested for ... 320
Number of toxins detected ... 165
Number of gene markers tested for, in millions ... 7-10

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  • Discover Magazine article based on Experimental Man is out in the April issue!
  • Book launched on March 16: 120 attend launch party in New York!
  • We have new results up on genes, environment, brain and body!
  • Check out David's genetic results on 2350 genotypes analyzed on the Promethease Program on SNPedia.
  • Personal Genome Project releases data on the genomes of ten volunteers.

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