The consumer-genomics company 23andMe just sold its biobank of customer genetic data to drugmaker Regeneron for $256 million.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/64477597

Regeneron is to pay $256 million in cash to acquire “substantially all” of 23andMe’s assets, including its massive biobank of around 15 million customer genetic samples and data.

  • frogbellyratbone_ [e/em/eir, any]English
    15•26 days ago

    …weren’t they selling/reselling it the entire time?

    i always thought it was weird when my friends gave facebook their info but… like, at least that wasn’t DNA?