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Re:23andMe lays off 100 people as DNA test sales decline by evandijk70 on Thursday January 23, 2020 @07:38PM (#22134121)
There are 250 000 appendectomies a year in the US, multiplied by 14000 USD => 3.5 billion USD in revenues [1].

[1] https://www.lendingpoint.com/blog/appendectomy-what-it-costs...

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Re:23andMe lays off 100 people as DNA test sales decline by Ohn0 on Friday January 24, 2020 @11:16AM (#22139526)
Good point. I just have a hard time thinking of a non-elective surgery as an "industry".

Maybe we could make it elective and pump those numbers up to grow the addressable market size to all Americans

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/01/170109162333.h...

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Re:23andMe lays off 100 people as DNA test sales decline by JshWright on Thursday January 23, 2020 @07:42PM (#22134156)
No one is earning a living solely doing appendectomies...
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