Posted on 02/06/2021 6:53:00 PM PST by Oscar in Batangas
23andMe is giving notice of wanting to go public
This could be fun to watch. Especially if the Big Boys want to play some more
Definitely another sign of a market top.
She has familial connections to people in the cabal. We should not purchase their shares.
+1
Going public so they can muddy the waters for selling DNA to ??????
I’ve never understood the attraction of this stuff.
A lot of people I know - mostly Black Americans - have bought into it; but the results seem to be very nebulous. What do they really tell anyone that’s useful?
My nephew took it.
And I found out I have another daughter...
I’ve made a new friend with a distant relative in England. We are chatting regularly. It’s pretty cool!
I know I’m from the best seven dogs in town. No desire to go beyond that.
There have been many examples of identical twins sending in their samples and getting remarkably different results. I know of a national network and one local occurrence in the last two years, and I don’t doubt there are others.
These things are just another way to part the gullible from their money, IMHO.
I am adopted, so it was a big deal to me. I was able to trace family to a certain location in Scotland and the other side in Germany, where they came to the US, and how they migrated to little old South Carolina to make me. A wonderful journey.
The FDA ordered 23andMe to stop offering users unapproved health tests. Now it’s back.
The genetic testing company 23andMe announced today that it’s relaunching its direct-to-consumer health testing kits after shutting them down two years ago when the Food and Drug Administration charged the company with failing to provide evidence that their tests were “analytically or clinically validated.”
Like other California-based startups (such as Theranos), 23andMe had charged ahead with promises to disrupt health care. The 23andMe co-founder, Anne Wojcicki, said the company was poised to become the “world’s trusted source of personal genetic information” and “empowering” users with information about their genetic makeup.
But that revolutionary language didn’t pass muster with health regulators. Many of the genetic analyses 23andMe was giving to consumers hadn’t yet been validated or FDA-approved, so the the company’s health service had to slow down and reboot for a couple of years until coming back online today.
23andMe had to scale back after the FDA stepped in
Before the FDA ordered 23andMe to stop, the company had offered its million-plus users risk assessments on 254 diseases and conditions based on an analysis of their DNA through a saliva sample.
For a mere $99, 23andMe was telling people about things like their chances of getting serious diseases, such as Alzheimer’s or breast cancer, and even offering genetics-based guidance on “steps toward mitigating serious diseases” like diabetes and heart disease.
The trouble is the science hadn’t yet caught up to the company’s interpretations of these tests. A person’s risk of developing a particular disease can be determined by environmental and lifestyle factors as much as it can by genetics. Science is only just in its infancy when it comes to understanding how all these factors come together and influence human health.
So the FDA had serious concerns about the accuracy of the genetic interpretations 23andMe was giving consumers. In 2013, it sent a sternly worded letter to the company, ordering it to stop marketing health interpretations for its genetic testing service. (23andMe continued offering its ancestry services, which were not a source of regulatory controversy.)
That letter was quickly followed by a class-action suit from people who alleged that 23andMe misled them by continuing to promote health promises without regulatory approval or good science behind them. The complaint notice also cited FDA concerns about potentially inaccurate and incomplete health risk assessments, which could lead people to make harmful choices.
23andMe is offering fewer health tests than before
After that, 23andMe went back into negotiations with the FDA, seeking approval for its health data. With this reboot today, they’re offering only tests and reports that passed regulators — and the menu is quite a scale back from the early days, though it comes at about double the price ($199).
Instead of disease risk data, 23andMe will now offer “carrier status” reports for 36 diseases, which determine whether a user has a genetic variant for conditions including cystic fibrosis, sickle cell anemia, and hereditary hearing loss. Carriers don’t usually have the condition but can pass along those diseases to their children, so it’s mainly a service targeted at would-be parents.
https://www.vox.com/2015/10/21/9583392/fda-23andme-health
Very interesting. Thanks for posting.
“The Seal Of Gaia” No way would I volunteer my DNA. Already they’re building databases. At the same time the whole “organ donor” thing will go from “opting in”(as is now), to “assumed opting in” unless you specifically opt out, to “mandatory opt in”. Some day in the not too distant future some rich scumbag or senator fat-butt is going to need a kidney, heart, eyes... (or their wife, or kid...) They’ll hire people who will rifle through the database and find the best possible match and that match will meet with a untimely fate that benefits the scumbags. Oh... and the authorities will do just as much about this as they did about the previous stolen election, NOTHING!
I found who my father’s father was, and that my dad had another (half) sibling.
I was on the ‘GO’ side of a BOGO promo about 3 years ago.
My sister, who knows genetics like Newton knew classical physics, needed a male DNA sample point to cast a wider net - don’t ask me to explain that!
The price was right, and I needed another hobby anyway...to keep me out of faceplant and tweeter jail. (It didn’t work for tweeter, but I’m in GREAT company being an outcast from that platform!)
I have enjoyed making new ‘friends’ out of 2nd and 3rd cousins who were totally unknown to me before. I’ve learned a lot of ancient family history through the perspectives they bring to the table.
They already have it.
One of our nephews, as well as couple of cousins, have already submitted their samples. Through inference, they can determine your genetic make-up.
That's how numerous child-molesters have been caught. It wasn't the perps who had submitted their DNA - law enforcement was able to "zero in" on them by analyzing the DNA of shirt-tail relatives.
Regards,
I was quite relieved to know that my wife IS our daughter’s mother. hahaha
23 and me and Amazon got into a Pi$$ing contest a few years ago when their supplier did some weird things filling orders. One of our female in-laws warned me when I was considering them, and I ordered from Amazon.com.
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