What happens when a super-power, not start up, has your genome

What Will China Do With Your DNA?

China’s Fourth Magic Weapon, Part III: Bioweapons

by Steven Mosher (Epoch Times)

“Editor’s Note: In Parts I and II, Steven Mosher wrote about the Chinese Communist Party’s program to collect the DNA of all Chinese citizens. This was, he suggested, an effort to develop a fourth “magic weapon” of control over the Chinese population. The first three “magic weapons,” outlined by President Xi Jinping in a September 2014 speech, are “the People’s Liberation Army, propaganda, and United Front tactics.”

But this effort also extends beyond China’s borders. Here, in Part III, Mosher discusses ways in which the CCP is able to collect foreign DNA and how it might be able to profit from, or even weaponize, the genetic information it acquires from analyzing it.“

Genome vs Exome sequencing in reference to cancer

Q&A With Mark B. Gerstein, PhD, on Diagnostic Genomic vs Exomic Sequencing

“Mark Gerstein, PhD, is Albert L Williams Professor of Biomedical Informatics and professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry, and of computer science at the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut. He is also codirector of the Yale Program in Computational Biology & Bioinformatics.

Dr Gerstein spoke with Cancer Therapy Advisor about the diagnostic use of whole-genome compared with whole-exome next-generation sequencing to search for gene mutations that are thought to contribute to the risk of cancer and other diseases.1-3“

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