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• Who Owns My DNA?

  
  QUEST Community Science Blog - KQED — Authority: 124
  If a DNA testing company gets bought out, what happens to their customers DNA? Image by Molly Eyres. / CC BY 2.0 One niggling worry I had when I decided to get some genetic testing from 23andMe was what would happen to my DNA if the company failed. By all accounts, 23andMe is a very healthy company* so it ...
  3 days ago

• DNA Testing Firm Goes Bankrupt; Who Gets the Data?

  
  Personal Health Information Privacy — Authority: 138
  Kim Zetter reports:An Icelandic firm that offers private DNA testing to customers has filed for bankruptcy in the U.S., raising privacy concerns about the fate of customer DNA samples and records, according to the Times of London.DeCODE Genetics, a genetics research firm, began offering personalized DNA testing ...
  1 week ago

• Hey DTC genomics, Stay Private, Stay Alive, Go Public and Die

  
  Gene Sherpas: Personalized Medicine and You — Authority: 457
  Todays lesson in start up business in the field of DTC Genomics is this..... Stay Private and Stay Alive. IPO and doom yourself to a painful and public death. Huh? Ah, yes our first DTC Genomics venture is going to be restructured to someone else and the thought experiment will become a ...
  1 week ago

• An argument 23andSerge cant win...23andme but not medicine

  
  Gene Sherpas: Personalized Medicine and You — Authority: 457
  " As I had postulated before, in order to move towards a profitable direction the DTC companies would have to choose "Medically Relevant" or "Novelty Testing" From this recent email sent to me by a reader it is clear, 23andME is Choosing to become a clinical service, without accepting the clinical responsibility. ...
  1 week ago

• Good Enough Science? Apparently so at 23andme

  
  Gene Sherpas: Personalized Medicine and You — Authority: 457
  "A total of 61 individuals involved in five norovirus outbreaks in Denmark were genotyped at nucleotides 428 and 571 of the FUT2 gene, determining secretor status, i.e., the presence of ABH antigens in secretions and on mucosa. A strong correlation (P 0.003) was found between the secretor phenotype and symptomatic ...
  3 weeks ago

• Away and now back, What did I miss???? Selling Genomes for cheap up next!

  
  Gene Sherpas: Personalized Medicine and You — Authority: 457
  23andSerge has layoffs , big surprise. When Linda left , she had a tribe that left too. I am working on hiring one or 2 and will see what exactly was going on over there...... GAPPNet has their first meeting, which I missed. I will email Dr. Khoury and find out how it went. Daniel MacArthur pointing ...
  3 weeks ago

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