Apple’s Next Big Focus: Your DNA

[Karamjit]

Upcoming iPhone apps might help test your genetic material

Apple has launched a platform for medical research, and recently, it has become apparent that Cupertino’s ambitions are quite grandiose and might even target the string of molecules that encode the genetic instructions that make you you (to be read as DNA).

MIT sources have revealed that Apple has taken up a collaboration with US researchers to launch apps that would allow iPhone users to get their DNA tested.

Apple introduced the ResearchKit platform back in March, in an effort to help hospitals and scientists use iPhones as tools for collecting data through the device’s sensors. Well, these future DNA apps will be based on the ResearchKit.

One of earliest apps based on ResearchKit, which is called mPower and has been developed to track the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, has quickly drawn the attention.

Apple wants to help you test your DNA

Apple won’t directly come to collect your DNA or test it, as you might have imaged. The idea behind these projects is to make it easier for participants to collect their DNA and send it to scholar partners for testing.

When information related to their genetic material becomes available, iPhone owners will be able to view it on the display of their phone within the application.

The Cupertino giant will be involved in several studies related to DNA collection. One in particular is planned by the University of California, San Francisco, whose goal is to study causes of premature birth by combining gene tests with other data collected via the phones from expectant mothers.

There are more DNA studies planned that are to look at 100 medically important disease genes, but not a person’s entire genome.

Those interested in joining these studies must know that they would have to agree to gene testing procedures like a “spit kit” to be performed in a laboratory approved by Apple.

Is your DNA information important for you?

The Cupertino tech giant is joining a select list of companies that are trying to cue people into doing more with their own genetic material. Among them are genealogy website Ancenstry.com and the Open Human Project.

And given that Apple’s iPhones are selling like hotcakes all around the world, it means more and more people would have faster access to genetic information.

However, given that DNA information is pretty tricky to handle, Apple will have to construct a protocol to deal with these issues.

But the biggest challenge remains the fact that the majority of consumers don’t have a real interest in their DNA, as there’s no real life use for it. Geneticists argue that this might change in the next 10 years.

From: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Apple-s-Next-Big-Focus-Your-DNA-480313.shtml

[dMog]

well the boys and girls at infowars have "known for quite some" time that apple is an apparatus of the Illuminati ans there fore not to be trusted... and as always they have tons of "proof" so i can just imagine the conspiracy nuts will do this one....one has to be pretty far away form reality to go to info-wars for anything more than few chuckles at the absurdity they pass off as reality...scary thing tho...many do just that and actually believe the usa, is, on a daily basis a few scant hours away from sending in the military, the police and the drones as well as the execution squads weapons of mass destruction not yet known to mankind to get of just about everyone....and the only thing standing in the is alex jones and themselves :rolleyes: and for the love of God no one has bothered to thank these brave souls for their vigilance and sacrifice of time for saving our asses every single day.... God only knows what will happen when the new world order figures out if they get rid of alex jones their road to the new world order will clear sailing to their endgame :s

[Enigmatism]

well the boys and girls at infowars have "known for quite some" time that apple is an apparatus of the Illuminati ans there fore not to be trusted... and as always they have tons of "proof" so i can just imagine the conspiracy nuts will do this one....one has to be pretty far away form reality to go to info-wars for anything more than few chuckles at the absurdity they pass off as reality...scary thing tho...many do just that and actually believe the usa, is, on a daily basis a few scant hours away from sending in the military, the police and the drones as well as the execution squads weapons of mass destruction not yet known to mankind to get of just about everyone....and the only thing standing in the is alex jones and themselves :rolleyes: and for the love of God no one has bothered to thank these brave souls for their vigilance and sacrifice of time for saving our asses every single day.... God only knows what will happen when the new world order figures out if they get rid of alex jones their road to the new world order will clear sailing to their endgame :s

Everything you said mocks those who choose to understand what is happening. I feel sorry for you and I'll pray for you.

[dMog]

well the boys and girls at infowars have "known for quite some" time that apple is an apparatus of the Illuminati ans there fore not to be trusted... and as always they have tons of "proof" so i can just imagine the conspiracy nuts will do this one....one has to be pretty far away form reality to go to info-wars for anything more than few chuckles at the absurdity they pass off as reality...scary thing tho...many do just that and actually believe the usa, is, on a daily basis a few scant hours away from sending in the military, the police and the drones as well as the execution squads weapons of mass destruction not yet known to mankind to get of just about everyone....and the only thing standing in the is alex jones and themselves :rolleyes: and for the love of God no one has bothered to thank these brave souls for their vigilance and sacrifice of time for saving our asses every single day.... God only knows what will happen when the new world order figures out if they get rid of alex jones their road to the new world order will clear sailing to their endgame :s

Everything you said mocks those who choose to understand what is happening. I feel sorry for you and I'll pray for you.

so...you actually think Apple is part and parcel with the imaginary Illuminati/new world order...wow you should really be praying for yourself to obtain real wisdom and see reality for what it actually is and not what to seem to think it is

[OrbingStorm]

I thought only the aliens wanted our dna.I dont want Apple or anyone to have my property which is body.

[dMog]

I thought only the aliens wanted our dna.I dont want Apple or anyone to have my property which is body.

well don't you know..they ARE the aliens..so it is sort of ok then?? or maybe just the Illuminati who are trying to kill almost everyone on the earth...ask egnitmatism he will set you straight on the truth...as he knows it....snopes,com has pages and pages dealing with the crap alex jones 'exposes" and that all you conspiracy nuts is not because snopes is part on of the new world order,,,it is because someone has to expose good old alex for the bullshiter that he is

[ugurano]

gruesome