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https://www.statnews.com/2019/06/12/intermountain-amgen-subsidiary-to-launch-dna-study-of-500000-patients/
Utah-based Intermountain Healthcare and the Icelandic company deCODE Genetics are teaming up on a deep dive into the DNA of half a million patients, a collaboration they hope can reveal connections between the makeup of our genomes and our health.
Q448 is on the clock today too.
so wait, people take DNA tests and use services like 23 and me, etc. elites now have a decent chunk of the population's DNA that may have certain traits, genomes, immunities, etc that they may not have had and can not edit their own genes or children's genes to include those?
selling the perfect gene set?
now edit their genes*
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dna-genealogy-privacy-60-minutes-2021-01-31/
Companies and foreign countries vying for your DNA
some excerpts i think are important.
Lisa Ikemoto: (LAUGH) I think you're giving up all rights. (LAUGH) And any potential commercial interest in the use of your DNA by AncestryDNA.
Jon Wertheim: Who are they selling the data to? Who are the buyers here?
Lisa Ikemoto: Most of the genealogy companies are partnering with pharmaceutical companies, biotech startups, established research institutions.
Jon Wertheim: 23andMe has a partnership with GlaxoSmithKline, $300 million dollars to develop drugs based on this DNA. Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
Lisa Ikemoto: They might produce something very useful. In that sense, it's good. It means that 23andMe and GlaxoSmithKline will make a huge amount of money. The people who provided all the cells and tissues or DNA that's being used will make none. They'll be probably charged a lot of money (LAUGH) for the drugs if they ever need them.
Jon Wertheim: So we're providing the raw materials to create this product and then we have to pay for the product?
Lisa Ikemoto: Yeah, that's exactly right. People are now being mined for their raw materials. It raises concerns about what it means to be human in this world.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dna-genealogy-privacy-60-minutes-2021-01-31/
some more
So risky in fact that the U.S. military recently issued a warning to all service members, instructing them not to use direct-to-consumer genealogy tests like those offered by Ancestry, 23andMe and other companies. Quote. "These… genetic tests are largely unregulated and could expose personal and genetic information… Outside parties are exploiting the use of genetic data."
Bill Evanina: The Department of Defense issued that proclamation saying, "Please do not use these genetic services because we are not comfortable yet as a government to understand where that genetic data goes."
If it's bad for the military, we wondered why there are not government warnings to American consumers. Already an estimated 50 million Americans have paid a small fee and sent in their saliva, hoping for clues to what country their ancestors came from, relatives they may not know they have, or some other information about their health. Genealogy firms are selling us on the use of DNA as a consumer product. But supervisory special agent Edward You of the FBI says what they are really selling us is something else entirely.
woah what are the odds. Notable for sure.
i like this take on the new drops lol. want to so bad but gotta remember we have to guide everyone to learn.
opine is I think they are trying to make themselves perfect somehow. looking for a specific gene or trait or whatever it may be.
very fun I love this rabbit hole we are going down.