keybored
User ID: 77443882 Belgium 01/14/2020 09:01 AM
Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 23andMe has sold the rights to develop a drug based on its users’ DNA DNA testing company 23andMe has sold the rights to a new drug that it has developed using its customers’ data. It is the first time the company has signed a deal to license a drug it developed. The deal for the drug, which is being investigated as a potential treatment for inflammatory diseases, is with Spanish pharmaceutical company Almirall. “This is a seminal moment for 23andMe,” Emily Drabant Conley, 23AndMe’s vice-president of business development told Bloomberg. “We’ve now gone from database to discovery to developing a drug.” The drug is likely to be the first of many the company licenses, says Tim Frayling, a molecular geneticist at the University of Exeter, UK. As 23andMe’s genetic database grows – it has doubled in the last couple of years – it will become more likely to yield medically useful information, he says. 23andMe has sold in excess of 10 million DNA testing kits. More than 80 per cent of their customers have agreed to their data being used by the company for research and by scientists trying to understand the causes of diseases and how best to treat them. [ link to www.newscientist.com (secure)] Wonder what other DNA specific drugs they will create to target any they deem undesirable? |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 75540213 United States 01/14/2020 09:07 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: 23andMe has sold the rights to develop a drug based on its users’ DNA The Wal'gen'ski's sisters are really brothers. |
DestinyAKA-Des
User ID: 78345578 United States 01/14/2020 10:01 AM
Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: 23andMe has sold the rights to develop a drug based on its users’ DNA Petite Southern Gun Toting Bubbette
NO. Is a complete sentence. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 77659510 United States 01/14/2020 10:10 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: 23andMe has sold the rights to develop a drug based on its users’ DNA I cant believe any moron would willingly hand over their DNA to anyone to do god knows what with. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 78014575 United States 01/14/2020 10:11 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: 23andMe has sold the rights to develop a drug based on its users’ DNA "Send all your DNA samples to us" and for a reasonable fee we will tell you all about your family history. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 75540213 United States 01/14/2020 10:13 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: 23andMe has sold the rights to develop a drug based on its users’ DNA They said I was half black. I want my money back. Now it seems I'm like those 1/2 tribes in the NE that has an infinity for watermelon and fried chicken. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 77722036 Japan 01/14/2020 10:15 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: 23andMe has sold the rights to develop a drug based on its users’ DNA Gosh. I can't believe such an 'ethical company, based in such an 'ethical', money -loving religulosity, would 'sell-out' like 'at ! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 73960537 United States 01/14/2020 10:23 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: 23andMe has sold the rights to develop a drug based on its users’ DNA They said I was half black. I want my money back. Now it seems I'm like those 1/2 tribes in the NE that has an infinity for watermelon and fried chicken.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 75540213 Affinity. Oh wait, youre half black. You can't spell! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 75540213 United States 01/14/2020 10:25 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: 23andMe has sold the rights to develop a drug based on its users’ DNA They said I was half black. I want my money back. Now it seems I'm like those 1/2 tribes in the NE that has an infinity for watermelon and fried chicken.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 75540213 Affinity. Oh wait, youre half black. You can't spell! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 73960537 It was the Ebonics classes they made me take, rea11y. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 65002749 United States 01/14/2020 10:30 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: 23andMe has sold the rights to develop a drug based on its users’ DNA And then they send the DNA profile off to the Agency's to have. Just like the face profiles they take. |
Dan Dread
User ID: 78345408 South Africa 01/14/2020 10:43 AM
Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: 23andMe has sold the rights to develop a drug based on its users’ DNA I cant believe any moron would willingly hand over their DNA to anyone to do god knows what with.
Quoting: Coyote1776 If they want it, they'll have our DNA since birth. Every time you have a blood sample tested...from Day 1...The Matrix is real. Fools never differ! |