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You mean exactly what 23andMe tried to do, and failed miserably at.
by paxys 3y ago
You mean exactly what 23andMe tried to do, and failed miserably at.
- swamp40 3y agoWe are still early. Eventually you'll be able to change your race, gender, add reptile eyes, regrow limbs etc. Has to start somewhere. Need more data.
- pharmaz0ne 3y agoExactly. We should start building global database connecting DNA with medical history.
- swamp40 3y agoNot a big fan? It could be provably private. You could have a kit with a random username/password. It could be done. People just have a bad taste from 23andMe.
- dekhn 3y agoYou mean, like UKBB and All of Us already do, but less nationally focused? The approach seems fraught with complexity due to the complexity of medical ethics, the variation of national laws, and strongly-held nationalist positions.
- ronald_raygun 3y agoI can already change my race. I just check a different box on government forms...
- dekhn 3y agoI really, really wanted to see a new generation of tattoo technology based on fluorescence and squid chromatophores. However, for the time being, the vast majority of gene editing will be for well-understood medical conditions where all the alternatives have been excluded. Germline (or even somatic) modification for recreational purposes or for non-urgent medical reasons is definitely still considered highly suspect by society as a whole, and I don't see that changing overnight. Somethings still work better in scifi than reality.
- hanniabu 3y agoThere was no privacy there