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23andMe Is Going Public As It Pushes Further Into Healthcare 16

23andMe is becoming a publicly-traded company through a merger with Virgin's VG Acquisition. Engadget reports: The deal values 23andMe at about $3.5 billion and should give the company the finances it wants to boost its personal healthcare and therapeutics plans. It should have over $900 million in cash, for instance. The merger is expected to close in the second quarter of 2021 and will have private $25 million investments from both 23andMe chief Anne Wojcicki and Virgin's Sir Richard Branson.

While 23andMe didn't say much about how its strategy might change by going public, it was keen to promote its contributions to genetic research and its involvement in therapeutic programs for conditions like cardiovascular disease and respiratory issues. As Sir Branson suggested, the public offering could help 23andMe "revolutionize" personalized medicine.

Comment Re:Mosquito gas (Score 1) 86

How does that explain any of the sounds people recorded? I don't know how the gas fits into this part of the story.

Having personally done work with microwave oven magnetrons in open air, while recording video you can usually hear mains hum as the positive component of the AC line generates RF output. With more sophisticated RF sources and optics, you can probably make some pretty wild stuff.

The recording I saw shows a central peak around 7000 Hz with a bunch of side bands about 3000 Hz across. You can amplitude modulate just about any variety of carrier frequency, if an adversary was hoping to induce microwave auditory effect via a specific carrier frequency for tinnitus at 7000 Hz this would be a good method. If this is what was done, they were extremely reckless in how they did it, almost as if the only goal was to freak the embassy staff out.They likely would have maimed some of those peoples inner ears through excessive heating and they're the ones who noticed. Whatever it was, it definitely made the Americans flee Cuba soon after.

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