Need A Little Extra Money?

Consumers will soon be able to sell or rent their DNA to scientists who are trying to fight diseases as different as dementia, lupus and leukemia. Bio-brokers want to collect everything from someone’s 23andMe and Ancestry.com gene data to fully sequenced genomes. The data would be sold or rented to biomedical institutes, universities and pharmaceutical companies, generating money for consumers who share their genetic secrets.

The roundup is mostly led by LunaDNA of Solana Beach, California and Nebula Genomics of San Francisco, startups that are still figuring out how much a person would be paid for their contribution.

You can read more in an article by Gary Robbins in the San Diego Union-Tribune web site at: http://bit.ly/2suod6w.

The above article is taken from Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter, written by Dick Eastman. Thank you Dick for the use of your most interesting articles!