Great to see it be OTC.
But it's weird that it is advertised to last for 15 days, while the prescription version for T1ds/T2ds only lasts for 10 days. The hardware looks the same.
The Genome Odyssey
A series of patient stories documenting the process of using genomics to diagnose and treat rare diseases in patients
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1250234980
I have absolutely loved working in genomics. I am a huge believer that genomics will be a huge part of healthcare in the future, and i have two examples to motivate that point that I think may be interesting to the reader.
1) The Moderna vaccine was made with the help of illumina genome sequencing. They were able to sequence the virus and send that sequence of nucleotides over to moderna for them to develop the vaccine - turning a classically biology problem, into a software problem, reducing the need for them to bring the virus in house.
2) Illumina has a cancer screening test called Galleri, that can identify a bunch of cancers from a blood test. It identifies mutated dna released by cancer cells. This is huge, if we can identify cancer before someone even starts to show symptoms, the chances of having a useful treatment dramatically go up.
Disclaimer: I work for illumina, views my own.
I wrote some more about why genomics is cool from a technical point of view here (truly big data, hardware accelerated bioinformatics) : https://dddiaz.com/post/genomics-is-cool/
Blog about Genomics, Type 1 Diabetes, and Life.