Apparently we are not there yet, but this possibility is just around the corner. Computer scientists at UC Irvine have devised a smartphone app that can store your DNA – and perhaps one day allow your partner, your relatives or your doctor to scan it (we can imagine a couple on a date holding their smartphones together, and instantly determining what their children will look like – or whether the kids might be predisposed to genetic disease).
The article "
Latest app? Store your DNA on a smartphone" discuss a number of possible future scenarios.
A more scientific approach to these issue is provided by this paper (
GenoDroid: Are Privacy-Preserving Genomic Tests Ready for Prime Time?) that explores the viability and practicality of privacy-agile computational genomic tests in the portable and pervasive setting of modern smartphones.
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