Ancestry lays off 6% of staff as consumer genetic testing market continues to decline

Ancestry lays off 6% of staff as consumer genetic testing market continues to decline

4 years ago
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https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/05/ancestry-lays-off-6-of-staff-as-consumer-genetic-testing-market-continues-to-decline/

Excitement in the consumer genetic testing market continues to show signs of slowing down.

In the past two weeks layoffs have hit two of the biggest consumer genetic testing services — 23andme and Ancestry — with the latter announcing that it would slash its staff by 6% earlier today, in a blog post.