Bryan Johnson paid $7,902 for cutting-edge genome sequencing — and found no use for it
shae_mcl · x · 2026-10-16
Longevity experimenter Bryan Johnson says he's been fully sequenced since 2012 and this year paid $7,902 for matched 30x long-read + 100x short-read sequencing — yet hasn't used his genome for a single decision. "What am I missing?" he asks, prompting quips that he's finally discovered genomics' real-world limits.
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