The secret to why some people get so sick from covid could lie in their genes | MIT Technology Review
▻https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/05/13/1001653/23andme-looks-for-covid-19-genetic-clues
23andMe, le compagnie de l’ex-femme de Sergey Brin et largement promue par Google a décidé de profiter de l’aubaine pour augmenter sa place de number one dans le traçage génétique. Pour le bien commun, évidemment. Le capitalisme génomique dans toute sa splendeur.
Some people die from covid-19, and others who are infected don’t even show symptoms. But scientists still don’t know why.
Now consumer genomics company 23andMe is going to offer free genetic tests to 10,000 people who’ve been hospitalized with the disease, hoping to turn up genetic factors that could point to an answer.
While it’s known that older people and those with health conditions such as diabetes are most at risk, there could be hidden genetic reasons why some young, previously healthy people are also dying.
23andMe operates a large gene database with more than 8 million customers, many of whom have agreed to let their data be used for research. The company has previously used consumer data to power searches for the genetic roots of insomnia, homosexuality, and other traits.
Ouh là la, que d’affirmations génomiques :
Scientists hope to find a gene that strongly influences, or even determines, how badly people are affected by the coronavirus. There are well-known examples of such genetic effects on other diseases: for example, sickle-cell genes confer resistance to malaria, and variants of other genes are known to protect people from HIV or to norovirus, an intestinal germ.
L’étude anti-scientifique et non-éthique sur l’homosexualité ne leur a pas suffit. Ces gens sont vraiment des rapaces du nouveau monde.
