Published on: 2025-04-25 20:00:00
Revive & Restore, a de-extinction organization in Sausalito, California, that is working toward reviving the passenger pigeon, says it doesn’t think the birds should be controlled by intellectual-property claims. “Revive & Restore will not be patenting de-extinct passenger pigeons,” says Elizabeth Bennett, a spokesperson for the organization. The organization envisions that if it succeeds in reintroducing the birds, they will be “protected under existing wildlife laws,” Bennett says. Even some
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-11 03:35:40
As soon as the genetic testing company 23andMe filed for bankruptcy on March 23, 2025, concerns about what would happen to the personal information contained in its massive genetic and health information database were swift and widespread. A few days after, a U.S. judge ruled that the company could sell its consumer data as part of the bankruptcy. The attorneys general of several states warned their citizens to delete their genetic data. California urged its citizens to request that 23andMe del
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While my final ranking in the Google AI Contest was disappointing (280th), it was a very educational experience and was totally offset by Gábor Melis' dominating win using Common Lisp as well. One of things that piqued my interest during the contest was a post on the AI Challenge forums about a bot written using genetic programming. Genetic programming (GP) and genetic algorithms have always held my interest but seeing the bot in action really motivated me to dive into the matter. Genetic prog
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-16 15:09:06
The openSNP project, a platform for sharing genetic and phenotypic data, will shut down on April 30, 2025, and delete all user submissions over privacy concerns and the risk of misuse by authoritarian governments. The decision was announced earlier this week by co-founder Bastian Greshake Tzovaras, who expressed concerns about how personal genomics data is subject to abuse today and how fundamentally the landscape has changed over the last 14 years. OpenSNP is a free and open-source platform w
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Bankruptcy proceedings involving personal data don’t have to end badly. In 2000, the Federal Trade Commission settled with the bankrupt retailer ToySmart to ensure that its customer data could not be sold as a stand-alone asset, and that customers would have to affirmatively consent to unexpected new uses of their data. And in 2015, the FTC intervened in the bankruptcy of RadioShack to ensure that it would keep its promises never to sell the personal data of its customers. (RadioShack eventually
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-20 07:00:22
An open-source genetic information repository that has subsisted on crowdsourced contributions will shut down next month, partially to protect its user base from the threat of rising authoritarianism, its founder has announced. OpenSNP was originally launched 14 years ago and was designed to allow web users to publish the results of their consumer DNA tests (of the kind you might get from 23andMe). Users can post their own genetic information from commercial consumer tests, and the information
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-21 07:39:06
DNA testing has become a valuable tool for hobbyists and novice genealogists. For some, learning they are the 10th cousin of Paul Revere or the 15th great nephew four times removed of the last King of Prussia is worth the perceived risk of sharing a DNA sample. But what happens when the company harvesting the DNA goes bankrupt? That was the question posed to millions of Americans last week when 23andMe, the company that popularized consumer genetic testing and had early backing from Google, fil
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-29 21:21:22
California-based genetic testing provider 23andMe has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and plans to sell its assets following years of financial struggles. 23andMe has been providing direct-to-consumer DNA testing services since November 2007 to customers who send a saliva sample and receive a report on their ancestry and genetic predispositions. Since then, 23andMe has sold over 15 million DNA testing kits. The company said in a Sunday press release that it will not change how it stores, mana
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-01 09:07:55
Image by Getty / Futurism Genetics Genetics firm 23andMe, maker of the once-popular take-home DNA testing kits, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, casting a looming shadow over the extremely sensitive user data it's still storing on its servers. The company, which was founded almost two decades ago, has been in severely dire financial traits for years now, struggling to effectively monetize its service, which most customers will only buy once. Now, its cofounder and CEO Anne Wojcicki — a di
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Genetic testing company 23andMe, once a Silicon Valley darling valued at $6 billion, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection late Sunday as it prepares for a sale of the business. CEO Anne Wojcicki, who cofounded the company in 2006, has also stepped down after months of failed attempts to take the firm private. As uncertainty about the company’s future reaches its peak, all eyes are on the trove of deeply personal—and potentially valuable—genetic data that 23andMe holds. Privacy advocates h
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-02 10:27:55
Genetic testing company 23andMe has filed for bankruptcy after its board rejected a bid from its CEO to take it private. Four years ago the genetic testing company was valued at $3.5 billion. Now it’ll be lucky if someone pays $50 million for it. If you haven’t done it yet, there’s never been a better time to delete your 23andMe data. The company filed for bankruptcy on Sunday after weeks of a collapsing stock price and multiple unsuccessful bids to buy the company and take it private from co-f
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-02 14:55:22
On Sunday, the genetic testing and heritage company 23andMe announced that it had entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy and was asking a court to arrange its sale. The company has been losing money for years, and a conflict between its board and CEO about future directions led to the entire board resigning back in September. Said CEO, Anne Wojcicki, has now resigned and will be pursuing an attempt to purchase the company and take it private. At stake is the fate of genetic data from the company's 15 mi
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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. Due to the trove of sensitive consumer data 23andMe has amassed, Attorney G
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What’s social, playful, and more likely to gain weight if it has a particular gene variant? Both humans and Labradors, apparently. Researchers in the UK have identified variants, or “versions,” of genes associated with obesity in British Labrador Retrievers. The bad news is that they found variants of the same gene, also linked to excessive weight gain, in humans. The good news is that both Labradors and people with the offending variants can prevent weight gain by following a strict diet and w
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-09 15:33:39
Mulligan worked with Rana Dajani, Ph.D., a molecular biologist at Hashemite University in Jordan, and anthropologist Catherine Panter-Brick, Ph.D., of Yale University, to conduct the unique study. The research relied on following three generations of Syrian immigrants to the country. Some families had lived through the Hama attack before fleeing to Jordan. Other families avoided Hama, but lived through the recent civil war against the Assad regime. The team collected samples from grandmothers a
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DNA studies suggest that Neanderthals underwent a steep decline in genetic diversity around 110,000 years ago—a forbidding omen of the species’ disappearance approximately 70,000 years later. Recent research has reexamined this so-called “bottleneck” phenomenon by analyzing an unexpected feature: Neanderthal ears. An international research team, led by Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona paleontologist Alessandro Urciuoli, studied Neanderthal semicircular ear canals—the three tiny tubes in the in
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