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23andMe’s future prompts more worries, as genomic data analysis improves


The roughly 15 million customers of genetic data outfit 23andMe may be at greater risk than they realize, suggests a new New York Times story that argues

The roughly 15 million customers of genetic data outfit 23andMe may be at greater risk than they realize, suggests a new New York Times story that argues the company’s near-term woes could become problematic for others for a very long time if it can’t continue as a going concern. Certainly, with each passing day, the hope of founder and CEO Anne Wojcicki to take it private again seems more like fantasy. As a Yale biomedical professor observes to the Times, a hacked credit card can be replaced; a genome cannot.

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