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Personally, I can't wait for the inevitable medical breakthroughs discovered through the service that we paid for, that GSK will sell back to us for thousands o
by danudey 7y ago
Personally, I can't wait for the inevitable medical breakthroughs discovered through the service that we paid for, that GSK will sell back to us for thousands of dollars per treatment.
There's something so purely dystopian about paying a company to collect our genomic data, which then helps to create medical breakthroughs that none of us will be able to afford.
- downvoted 7y agoAnd though the idea is tricky, commercializing our genome is no longer about "hey, the next R&D breakthrough will come from your genome." It's about making sure that the first humans to create such breakthroughs can get rich off the money it pays for them. This is why it's so important that companies refrain from selling our genomes to biotech companies.
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- trixie_ 7y agoWouldn't you be paying for all the R&D that was required after using the genetic info to develop a treatment. If the treatment ends up costing $100k, the genetic info you provided resulted in a discount from infinite dollars to an actual finite amount. That's a pretty big discount.