How 23andMe Won Back the Right to Foretell Your Diseases

[MindWars]

How 23andMe Won Back the Right to Foretell Your Diseases


YOUR DNA GUIDES the plot for the story of you. And among the many important spoilers it contains is whether you are likely to contract certain diseases—things like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and celiac. On Thursday, the FDA approved genetic testing company 23andMe to sell customers foreshadowing about their susceptibility to these, and seven other heritable genetic traits.



How 23andMe Won Back the Right to Foretell Your Diseases
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the dangers of this are beyond what most can even think of, let alone dream of. This will end up tying into the healthcare coverage you can or can not have, it will affect the cost you pay bank on it.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

I'm afraid they would find unidentifiable telomeres in my sample.

 

[MindWars]

I'm afraid they would find unidentifiable telomeres in my sample.

Uhh hh that must mean you are an O Negative lol

 

[ScienceRocks]

So you believe one should know but don't like the idea of them fixing their problems with gene slicing. weird,,,

me, I believe taking away the suffering. The easier life is the better within my world view.

 

[Old Rocks]

Forewarned is forearmed. If a person knows they have a susceptibility to a certain disease, they can take steps to counter the disease or it's affects. I think that this is a wonderful development.