Comment on What happens to your data if 23andMe collapses?

db2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They patented your DNA.

  You can’t patent DNA… They can sell it though, with a simple TOS update (if they even need to).

  source

  • db2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    geneticspolicy.nccrcg.org/…/gene-patents/

    source

    • eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      […] human genes cannot be patented because DNA is a “product of nature.” All gene patents were invalidated with this ruling.

      did you paste the link so admit you were wrong?

      source

      • db2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Did you stop reading before you should have?

        source
    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      However, on June 13, 2013, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in the Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc, that human genes cannot be patented because DNA is a “product of nature.” All gene patents were invalidated with this ruling. However, the ruling did not prohibit the patenting of DNA that is manipulated (i.e., no longer a product of nature) or processes for identifying DNA sequences.

      source

      • slickgoat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        So if a lab rat adds, deletes or edits a person’s DNA it is no longer a ‘product of nature’?

        source

        • -> View More Comments
• deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s not true in the slightest.

  source
• ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m hoping in 500 years, my DNA sequence is found on a perfectly preserved micro SD card and my clone gets to meet President Camacho and take on Beef Supreme and the Dildozer on Monday Night Rehabilitation.

  source

  • Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s the optimistic timeline, we still have to actually get there first.

    I am sure you can come with what a pessimistic timeline would look like.

    source

    • felbane@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I don’t have to, I watched Planet of the Apes

      source
• Flagstaff@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The monsters.

  Well, that originally autocorrected to “mobsters,” but I suppose that’d work in a certain context, too.

  source