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Amgen bought an Icelandic biotechnology company, DeCode Genetics, for $415 million in 2012, to acquire its massive database on more than half of Iceland’s adult population.
Genentech is collaborating with Silicon Valley startup 23andMe, which has sold its $99 DNA spit kits to 1 million consumers who want to find out more about their health and family history—more than 80 percent have agreed to have their data used for research.
originally posted by: DaemonD14
While there are definite benefits to have your DNA sequenced/analysed like this, it is odd how many services there are now dedicated to analysing bits of your life/existence.
On Tuesday, Calico, the medical research company Google incubated in 2013, announced it had cut a deal for access to genetic information from Ancestry.com, the largest family tree website. It’s among the first public moves from Calico, the secretive division born to (gasp!) extend human life. With its new DNA data — properly anonymized — Calico will look for genetic patterns in people who have lived exceptionally long lives, then make drugs to help more of us do that.
The deal also marks another step in the next chapter of tech’s ambitious experiments with biology: After collating medical data, it’s marching the research to market. In January, 23andMe — the Ancestry.com competitor run by Anne Wojcicki, now ex-wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin — inked a similar deal with Genentech to parse the genomes of Parkinson’s disease patients. Genentech is the former company of Arthur Levinson, the CEO of Calico. (It’s a small world.)
.....people who submitted genetic samples for reasons of health, curiosity, or to advance science could now end up in a genetic line-up of criminal suspects.
About 50,000 years ago, the modern humans who left Africa encountered Neanderthal settlements somewhere in the Middle East, scientists believe. On some occasions, these meetings led to couplings whose legacy is apparent in the genomes of people with ancestors from Europe and Asia.
Not everyone with Neanderthal DNA inherited the same genes. But the immunity genes appear to be more popular than others.
Among some Asian and European populations, the researchers found that these particular Neanderthal genes can be found in 50% of people.
originally posted by: CantStandIt
a reply to: [post=16849872]queenofswords[
you can get an entire dna profile for $99, but try to get common lab work from your Dr. For less than $250...
If nothing else, I could see this data being coveted by big insurance and pharma interests.
originally posted by: CantStandIt
a reply to: [post=16849872]queenofswords[
you can get an entire dna profile for $99, but try to get common lab work from your Dr. For less than $250...
If nothing else, I could see this data being coveted by big insurance and pharma interests.
In the fifteen years since Colman got a DNA test as a baby, tests have only gotten cheaper and more popular. You have 23andMe’s $199 spit test, of course, but also the National Institutes of Health pumping $25 million into baby sequencing studies.
originally posted by: queenofswords
As a dot connector, do you find yourself thinking that this could just be another data gathering ploy?
We have Ancestry.com that has collected billions of bits of information about families' ancestries and connections.
We have NSA spying and gathering data on regular citizens.
We have the UN and government leaders pushing to control free user access to the Internet.
Sometimes I get the feeling that "THEY" are desperately searching for a particular 'SOMEBODY'....
Why DNA?