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All Those 23andMe Spit Tests Were Part of a Bigger Plan (www.bloomberg.com)

submitted 2 years ago by ooli@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Staccato@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

23andme requires you to agree to what they ask, which is far more than what Johns Hopkins did for Henrietta Lacks.

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[–] Staccato@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago

Informed consent laws were around well before The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks came out. I think there were earlier publicized examples of subject mistreatment (like Tuskegee) that already pushed the field to be better.

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