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We've started with ubiome/23andme providing customers data previously not available. Another area is improving existing processes. We see techniques where pho
by wolco 7y ago
We've started with ubiome/23andme providing customers data previously not available.
Another area is improving existing processes. We see techniques where photos are being read more accurately and quickly compared to manual processes.
Medicine now resolves around tests. Those can be improved and automated.
We will see tools that will empower personal medicine and shift the power balance away from the family clinics.
- neural_thing 7y agoTo be fair, ubiome is a fraud, and (anecdote) 23andme made a mistake in reading my genome and their data showed that I had an incredibly deadly cancer predisposition (Li-Fraumeni), which a reputable medical lab showed to be false.
- wolco 7y agoubiome is a ycombinator company. Why would you call them a fraud. I've done a number of tests over a period after antiobiotics and I definately saw the change into diversity correlate with the foods I introduced.
- detaro 7y agoThey've been raided by the FBI for insurance fraud, they reportedly conducted "tests" using samples that hadn't been stored properly, their CEOs/founders have resigned, they've let half their staff go recently and currently are not capable of actually doing testing ... That's not saying that they never produced useful data, but ...
- baby 7y agoYou'd be surprised how many scams Ycombinator accepts. Quantstamp cough cough.
- scarface74 7y ago23andme has been found to be highly inaccurate. https://www.livescience.com/63997-dna-ancestry-test-results-explained.html https://www.livescience.com/63997-dna-ancestry-test-results-...