14 DAY TRIAL // Last November saw the launch of the 999 bucks DNA service in the U.S. from a firm that has Google as a founding father. It was an instant success and requests for it started pouring in from all across the world. After polling them together, the managing wing of the 23andMe company decided that Europe and Canada were the next on the "expansion" list.
The service will be presented by the two co-founders, Linda Avey and Anne Wojcicki, at the annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, set to begin tomorrow. The way the test works is that subscribers will send a sample of their saliva through mail and after the analysis is complete, the results will be sent back online. The whole process only takes between four and six weeks and the information returned will also have notes about the person's inherited traits, ancestry and some of the personal disease risks, as Reuter reports.
That's very interesting and, dare I say, not very expensive. There's no price tag to health and life, so despite it not being free, most of the people should be able to afford it. The service takes its name after the 23 pairs of chromosomes that make a person's genome.
However, 23andMe could be faced with some serious opposition from conservatory countries, like Britain, who claim that the test might cause people unnecessary stress and health worries. On the other hand, if you are to know what is ahead of you as far as your health is concerned, perhaps you would actually not stay on course for the self-destruction that is most likely ahead of any of us. Ok, any with the exception of nutritionists or professional athletes who suffer a bodily breakdown when they retire. Nutritionists already know what's bad for them and athletes cannot help it.