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What the search engine is to Google, the Personal Genome Service is to 23andMe. The company is not exactly hiding its ambitions. “The long game here is not to make money selling kits, although the kits are essential to get the base level data,” Patrick Chung, a 23andMe board member, told FastCompany last month. “Once you have the data, [the company] does actually become the Google of personalized health care.” The company has lowered the price of the kit again and again, most recently from $299 to a mere $99, practically making it a stocking-stuffer. All the better to induce volunteers to give 23andMe the data it so desperately wants. (Currently, the database contains the genetic information of some half a million people, a number Wojcicki reportedly wants to double by year end.)
Wojcicki's sister Anne Wojcicki, who cofounded DNA testing firm 23AndMe, was married to Google cofounder Sergey Brin for 8 years, until mid 2015.
Imagine what could be engineered up with a DNA database .....
originally posted by: marg6043
a reply to: MetalThunder
Yes, this is been around for a long time, those that have fallen for that collection in the name of finding out genetic information of family things this is all fun, the reality is that most people that I know has done this said that the information is almost the same for all.
I know this is collection of voluntarily DNA, that is why I will never do it, remember some insurance also swipe you for DNA this days too.
originally posted by: Bluntone22
a reply to: samuelsson
Creating and releasing a virus that thrives on specific genes would make a pretty effective weapon.... And sounds like a good movie.
originally posted by: Bluntone22
a reply to: samuelsson
Creating and releasing a virus that thrives on specific genes would make a pretty effective weapon.... And sounds like a good movie.