Ancestry.com “is poised to become one of the most unlikely, yet powerful, scientific tools in the world,” Fusion reports. That’s because for the past three or so years, “it’s been collecting and analyzing genetic information through a service called AncestryDNA, and in the process, quietly asking consumers if they’d be willing to share their data with Ancestry for research,” the report states. So far, Ancestry has gathered 800,000-plus samples from customers across the globe—almost as many as genetics company 23andMe—and eventually “hopes to make money by selling anonymized data about its users to large pharmaceutical and biotech companies,” the report states.
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