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VentureBeat: Google invests in biotech company, 23andme, to form genetic database

  • Boris Epstein · 2 years ago
    It seems to me that Google is spreading itself a bit too thin. They are becoming the everything to everybody and that is a dangerous position to be in.

    Boris
    Founder of BINC
  • r1 · 2 years ago
    23& Me what a name! So this seems like a database program, what is big about it, any zimbu can build this one. with expection that Zimbu is not married to Sergey? and that's why MDW and NEA would not fund it.
  • Amit Agarwalla · 2 years ago
    Making the DNA test data available in public domain will lead to high technology crimes.
  • martin varsavsky · 2 years ago
    Thanks for the maverick part ;) Having said this it is not really Google here. It is Anne and Linda running the show and hopefully succeeding at creating a global search engine for human genes that will help us know more about how we are related to each other and how we can fight disease and live longer and better lives.
  • BruceB · 2 years ago
    And the ethical issues are staggering: How will privacy and confidentiality be maintained? How can the quality of the analysis be monitored or guaranteed? If a gene variant for Huntington's disease is found (which is a death sentence), does an individual really want to know that? If your DNA is found to have a probability of, say, breast cancer, who will provide genetic counseling? What about informed consent? Many, many questions to be answered.
  • Thomas E Nolan · 2 years ago
    Amazing how cynical folks get here. I find this absolutely fasinating and I look forward to hearing of the progress to be made, the ethical questions layed out above by BRUCEB to be clearly and transparantly understood and hopefully this could connect family to cures/solutions to problems. All the Best to 23 & ME, Anne and Linda and lastly to Anne and Sergey may you have continued blessings in your marriage!!
    Kind Regards,
    Tommy Nolan
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