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#23andMe Sale Shows Your #Genetic Data Is Worth $17
23andMe sold genetic data of 15M people for $256M to a #pharmaceutical #Regeneron. 23andMe does not perform full genome sequences. It instead does #DNA #genotyping, which look at parts of #genome that vary from person to person.
Sale to Regeneron means #gene data collected by 23andMe will be used for development of new #drugs, which felt like the most likely and perhaps best-case scenario for the company’s bankruptcy.
404media.co/23andme-sale-shows

404 Media · 23andMe Sale Shows Your Genetic Data Is Worth $1723andMe sold the genetic data of 15 million people for $256 million to a pharmaceutical company called Regeneron.

#23andMe Sale Shows Your #Genetic Data Is Worth $17

#Regeneron is a drug company that “intends to acquire 23andMe’s Personal #Genome Service (PGS), Total Health and Research Services business lines, together with its #Biobank and associated assets, for $256 million and for 23andMe to continue all consumer genome services uninterrupted,”
#privacy #dna #genetics

404media.co/23andme-sale-shows

404 Media · 23andMe Sale Shows Your Genetic Data Is Worth $1723andMe sold the genetic data of 15 million people for $256 million to a pharmaceutical company called Regeneron.