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Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋

🔴 🧬 **Genetic data is an another asset to be exploited – beware who has yours**

John Naughton

“_When 23andMe’s data assets come up for sale the queue of likely buyers is going to be long, with health insurance and pharmaceutical giants at the front, followed by hedge-funds, private equity vultures and advertisers, with marketers bringing up the rear._”

🔗 theguardian.com/science/2025/a

#Science #DNA #Genetics #Data #Biology @science @biology

The Guardian · Genetic data is an another asset to be exploited – beware who has yoursBy John Naughton
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katzenberger 🇺🇦

@mullvadnet

Not just #ChatControl.

Can't wait for #Orban, and consequently #Putin, to get hold of this:

»This will enable secure #automated exchanges of #fingerprints, #DNA profiles, #vehicle registration data, #facial images, and police #records through EU routers. At national level, Member States need to implement the Information Exchange Directive enhancing information exchange channels for seamless cross-border information flow, while ensuring their integration with Union-level systems, such as SIENA«

eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten

eur-lex.europa.euEUR-Lex - 52025PC0148 - EN - EUR-Lex
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Andrés Manuel Álvarez

After a long journey, finally, my good friend Sai and coworkers published this amazing work in #NatCommun. 🎉

They can use native functional groups such as alcohols and transform them to the most challenging Z-olefins.

Without the use of a transition metal catalyst, and even working for #DNA 🧬 functionalization!

#chemistry #science #paper #photocatalysis #catalysis #research

nature.com/articles/s41467-025

NaturePhotocatalytic deoxygenative Z-selective olefination of aliphatic alcohols - Nature CommunicationsAlcohols are one of the most abundant functional groups in commercially available materials and biologically active compounds. Here, the authors report a metal-free photocatalytic method for the deoxygenative Z-selective olefination of aliphatic alcohols.
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gtbarry

For everyone trying to delete your 23andMe data...you can't

When you press delete on your 23andMe account and data, it will vanish from the site. But a clause in the privacy statement and 23andMe’s adherence to laboratory rules mean that your genetic background is still there, somewhere, in the company’s records.

#23andMe #bankruptcy #DNA #genetics #privacy #biotech #business #technology

sfgate.com/tech/article/califo

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PrivacyDigest

#OpenSource #Genetic Database Shuts Down To Protect Users From 'Authoritarian Governments' - Slashdot
#authoritarian #authoritarianism #privacy #dna

science.slashdot.org/story/25/

science.slashdot.orgOpen Source Genetic Database Shuts Down To Protect Users From 'Authoritarian Governments' - SlashdotAn anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: The creator of an open source genetic database is shutting it down and deleting all of its data because he has come to believe that its existence is dangerous with "a rise in far-right and other authoritarian governments" in the United States and e...
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Lisa Kalayji

"[creator of open source genetic database OpenSNP] Greshake Tzovaras says that he is particularly concerned about the rise of DNA phenotyping, which is a dubious process in which DNA “portraits” of potential suspects are generated based on a DNA sample; he called the practice “unreliable nonsense,” and said that a startup had once approached OpenSNP to help them create a DNA phenotyping product to sell to law enforcement. "That's something we don't want to see in the world," he said.

“Across the globe there is a rise in far-right and other authoritarian governments. While they are cracking down on free and open societies, they are also dedicated to replacing scientific thought and reasoning with pseudoscience across disciplines,” Greshake Tzovaras wrote. “The risk/benefit calculus of providing free & open access to individual genetic data in 2025 is very different compared to 14 years ago. And so, sunsetting openSNP – along with deleting the data stored within it – feels like it is the most responsible act of stewardship for these data today.”

404media.co/open-source-geneti

404 Media · Open Source Genetic Database Shuts Down to Protect Users From 'Authoritarian Governments'"The risk/benefit calculus of providing free & open access to individual genetic data in 2025 is very different compared to 14 years ago."
#DNA#InfoSec#Genetics
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Aethelflaed

#health #science #dna

Atherosclerosis is a major cause of coronary heart disease. For those who haven't heard of it before it is simply 'furring' (known as plaque) of the arteries and veins. This in turn can cause clots that stop blood supply. Now researchers have discovered there are 20 different genetic variants that can cause this disease. The main problem is that the disease can hit without warning. Hopefully this discovery will help to identify those at risk.
news-medical.net/news/20250331

News-Medical · Swedish researchers identify genetic variants linked to atherosclerosisSwedish researchers have identified genetic variants that increase the risk of atherosclerosis. The aim is for these new findings to enable earlier detection of atherosclerosis and improved treatment of cardiovascular diseases such as heart attack and stroke.
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