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@cantankerous_cashew@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 3 months ago

Attorney General Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert for 23andMe Customers

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Attorney General Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert for 23andMe Customers

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@cantankerous_cashew@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 3 months ago
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Californians have the right to direct the company to delete their genetic data OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today issued a consumer alert to customers of 23andMe, a genetic testing and information company. The California-based company has publicly reported that it is in financial distress and stated in securities filings that there is substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern.
  • Guy Ingonito
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    You can do your own dna testing at home now anyways

    • @phdepressed@sh.itjust.works
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      You still have to send it somewhere, at home kits are just about collecting the sample not sequencing it.

      • chonkyninja
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        19•3 months ago

        Now imagine, the person you responded to, is allowed to vote.

      • @MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca
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        11•3 months ago

        They didn’t say what they were testing for. You can do a binary do you have DNA or not test to see if you are in fact a robot or not. All you need is soap and alcohol.

        • Gormadt
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          5•3 months ago

          Drinking soap makes my stomach upset and drinking alcohol makes me upset, that means I’m a human right?

          • @ebolapie@lemmy.world
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            6•3 months ago

            Any robot I can get drunk with is alright by me

      • @grue@lemmy.world
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        This thread made me look into the idea of DIYing it, and one of the search results I found looks like it legitimately is about actually doing the sequencing yourself:

        https://techcrunch.com/2016/03/30/citizen-scientists-you-can-now-diy-your-own-dna-analysis/

        $800 in 2016 was steep enough, but at the $1600 it apparently costs today I’m not sure it’s still within the realm of DIY, if it ever really was. I wonder if there are any cheaper competitors?

        • @phdepressed@sh.itjust.works
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          5•3 months ago

          That allows visualization of PCRed product, which is a far cry from whole genome sequencing. You can visualize a target at a time with no sequence info. Using it for sequences would be extremely tedious and require a lot of runs.

          • Lemminary
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            Yup, I used to do PCR genotyping. 50 samples running the same setup would take me a whole 12-hour day at my lower end lab.

            I can’t imagine having to do 50 different ones with 50 different templates and having to adjust each one. 😅 And that’s for 50 sequences. How many are there in a human?

            • @phdepressed@sh.itjust.works
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              About 25,000 coding sequences and a lot more non-coding.

    • @Baaahb@feddit.nl
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      More info plz

      • Guy Ingonito
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        https://quiz.now/dna-test-online-quiz/

        • @KennyOmega@lemmy.ca
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          7•3 months ago

          Dad, you’re drunk again!

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