In providing this information, 23andMe’s customers are building a valuable “biobank” for the company. Given that the United States decided not to create a national biobank like the United Kingdom’s, owing to the high set-up costs – estimated at about a billion dollars – 23andMe may well view its growing biobank as saving it a massive outlay.
在提供这些信息的过程中，23andMe的客户为该公司建立了价值连城的“生物银行”。由于昂贵的建造成本——据估计高达10亿美元左右，美国决定不像英国那样建立国家级的生物银行，因此23andMe踌躇满志地认为不断增长的生物银行可以节省一大笔开支。