As chief correspondent for National Public Radio’s “BioTech Nation,” David Ewing Duncan has spent the last few years exploring what advanced medical technology has in store for our future well-being. In the process he has become a human lab rat himself, having undergone testing of his genes, brain, body and the environmental impact on health. The results are documented in his book, “The Experimental Man: What One Man’s Body Reveals About His Future, Your Health and Our Toxic World.” In a lecture presented by the Science and the Arts Program at the CUNY Graduate Center, Duncan, director of the Center for Life Science Policy at University of California at Berkeley, shared his journey. “The future focus,” he said, “is on prevention and custom care … on pills designed for (their) particular genes and physiology, and other factors that make up an individual.”
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