Ancestry, which grew from a genealogy tracking tool to offering DNA tests for a number of healthconditions, reached a deal to be acquired by Blackstone for $4.7 billion. But privacy advocates have raised concerns over the deal — namely, what would happen to users’ health data?
On the company's LunaDNA platform, a whole genome can be exchanged for 300 company shares, while 20 days of fitness data is equal to two shares.
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Direct-to-consumer medical testing has a rocky past, but healthcare is changing, deductibles are going up, and the patient is becoming more and more empowered. Quest Diagnostics thinks it's now worth a shot.
The demand has been so strong that consumer genetics company, AncestryDNA, now has a database of two million samples.