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今天早上我收到了来自 23andMe 的以下电子邮件

亲爱的 Michelle,

感谢您,我们取得了一些非常惊人的 DNA 发现 - 从关于卷发和分离耳垂的有趣发现(您可以在聚会上分享),到关于 DNA 和帕金森病的开创性健康相关发现。

我们想感谢您参与研究。您回答的每一个调查问题都使我们能够推动新的发现。参与的人越多,我们就能发现更多有趣的东西,也就能与您和世界其他地方分享更多!

为了表达我们的感谢,并鼓励其他人加入这场研究革命,我们给您一张 50 美元的优惠券,您可以与尽可能多的人分享。这张优惠券在 7 天后(2011 年 8 月 9 日)过期,所以请务必尽快告知大家。

万分感谢!你太棒了!

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我强烈推荐 23andMe 的基因分型服务,所以我很高兴能把优惠传递给您。我还强烈建议您在使用各种售后服务,这些服务在您获得结果并下载数据后即可使用。我计划重新发布一些我使用售后基因分型服务的经历,但您也可以在我的旧博客上浏览它们

"Life creates [the Force], makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter," Yoda explains in The Empire Strikes Back, gesturing to Luke's physical body. This quote is striking because of the apt juxtaposition of the wonder of life with its often disgusting vessel. Like many other animals, we secrete, excrete, expectorate, defecate, flatulate, regurgitate, urinate, circulate, masticate, menstruate, ejaculate, and ventilate. We are filled with gas and feces and blood and guts and mucus and any number of rude things. Life as we know it is possible because of the countless impolite things we do every day. Are we luminous beings? Perhaps, but that's neither here nor there. This blog is about the crude matter that keeps us alive.

Michelle Clement has a B.Sc. in zoology (with a minor in American culture studies) and a M.Sc. in organismal biology from The Ohio State University. Her thesis research was on the ecophysiology of epidermal lipids and water homeostasis in house sparrows. She now works as a technical editor for The American Chemical Society. Her broader interests include weird human and animal physiology, obesity and enteric physiology, endocrinology, sexual and reproductive health, personal genomics, anthropology (physical and cultural), sociology, and science education and communication. She lives in Ohio with her boyfriend and two cats.

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