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#23andme is getting ready to sell what s left (down to 11 million from 3.5 billion) - in capitalist newspeak "to Maximize Stakeholder Value Through Court-Supervised Sale Process" -

asking customers to delete their #DNA now as it will be given away.

[german]

heise.de/news/23andme-beantrag

via @mho
#genetics #geneticData

heise online · 23andme beantragt Insolvenzschutz, zielt auf Verkauf: Hinweis auf DatenlöschungBy Martin Holland

GSK Plc will pay #23andMe Holding Co. $20M for #GeneticTesting company’s vast #trove of #consumer #DNAData, extending a 5 yr collaboration that’s allowed the #drugmaker to mine #geneticdata as it researches new #medications. Under the new agreement, 23andMe will provide GSK with one year of access to anonymized #DNA data from the approximately 80% of gene-testing customers who have agreed to share their information for research. Really? #privacy #medicine #healthcare bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Bloomberg · 23andMe Will Give GSK Access to Consumer DNA DataBy Kristen V Brown

"China has pushed a dubious hypothesis that the virus originated outside its borders entirely, suggesting at one point that it was carried into the Huanan market via imported frozen foods. It has strongly pushed back on suggestions of a possible lab leak and had previously denied the existence of any wild animals in Huanan that could have acted as intermediate hosts."

#GeneticData links #SARSCoV2 to #RaccoonDogs in #China market, scientists say | #Covid19 |Ars Technica
arstechnica.com/science/2023/0