DNA of 15 Million People for Sale in 23andMe Bankruptcy
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DNA of 15 Million People for Sale in 23andMe Bankruptcy

There is no way to know what a buyer will want to do with the reams of genetic information it has collected. Customers, meanwhile, still have no way to change their underlying genetic data.
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DNA of 15 Million People for Sale in 23andMe Bankruptcy
23andMe

DNA of 15 Million People for Sale in 23andMe Bankruptcy

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