Archive for the 'inside 23andMe' Category

Dec 07 2009

23andMe….and me: Interview with Esther Dyson

Published by ErinC under big questions, inside 23andMe, news

Esther Dyson is a Director of 23andMe and an investor in numerous Internet, private aviation, space and health care ventures.  She has also shared her genetic data, medical records and other personal information with the research community and the general public as a research subject for the Personal Genome Project, an initiative led by Harvard’s [...]

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Jun 11 2009

23andMe’s New and Improved Paternal Haplogroups

Published by AnneH under inside 23andMe, news

Science is dynamic and ever changing. As new research is published, theories get revised, and hypotheses retested. The field of genetic ancestry is no exception: The flurry of published research just in the last five years has been staggering, and we can now piece together the histories of many groups from nearly all parts of [...]

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Jun 03 2009

Study Draws Genetic Link Between Gum, Cardiovascular Disease

Published by MattC under inside 23andMe, news

It has been known for decades that having the gum disease periodontitis increases a person’s risk for heart attack (free registration required), stroke and other forms of cardiovascular disease. Research suggests that the link is due to inflammation in the gums causing an immune reaction throughout the entire body. That can increase blood pressure and [...]

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May 26 2009

Gloom but not Doom, Concludes Study in Malaria Area

Malaria is one of the leading causes of death in the developing world, claiming nearly a million victims each year. The great majority of them are African children below the age of five. The illness is caused by a single-celled parasite called Plasmodium that is transmitted by mosquito bites to humans. In a paper published [...]

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Mar 03 2009

What Happens After I Spit? A Saliva Sample’s Saga

Published by VarshaB under inside 23andMe

The way our Personal Genome Service™ works is pretty straightforward, at least from a customer’s point of view. We send you a saliva collection kit, which is at its heart a plastic tube. You spit in the tube and send it to our laboratory, which extracts DNA from your saliva, analyzes it and deposits the [...]

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Feb 13 2009

The Most Natural Human Diet: Just About Anything

Published by MattC under inside 23andMe, news

Generally when you think about what separates humans from other species, features like upright walking, large brains and language come to mind.
But diet has actually played an enormous role in human evolution. Today at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a panel of anthropologists, geneticists and paleontologists got together [...]

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Jan 02 2009

Meet the Team: Chia Hwu

Published by ErinC under inside 23andMe

Chia, a former organic chemist who is happy to be out of the lab after a ten-year stint in front of a bench, is the Community Manager at 23andMe. What does this mean, you ask? Well, it’s a cross between a den mother, grassroots PR person, customer service agent, brand evangelist and community advocate. This [...]

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Dec 19 2008

Meet The Team: Rachel Cohen

Published by ErinC under inside 23andMe

Rachel is the Manager of Communications at 23andMe, i.e. the company gatekeeper. She handles incoming press inquiries, manages the public relations surrounding the launch of new features and partnerships, and talks to reporters and news producers about everything 23andMe. Imagine C.J. on the West Wing, except shorter and with less politics and more [...]

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Nov 28 2008

Meet The Team: Jonathan Hansen

Published by ErinC under inside 23andMe

Jonathan was a founding student of CSU Monterey Bay where he studied International Relations, Global Economics and Computer Science. Though he wanted to work in international politics and only studied computer science to keep his two Silicon Valley engineer parents happy and paying for college, eventually genetics won out and he joined the “family business.” [...]

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Nov 18 2008

23andMe Scientists Offer Solution to Apparent Mutation Rate Discrepancy

Published by brennah under inside 23andMe, news

This guest post is by Brenna Henn, a doctoral student in Stanford University’s Department of Anthropology and a 23andMe consultant. Brenna studies human evolution using genetic information. Her interests include the origin of modern humans, migration patterns among African groups, and genetic models of demography.

One of the reasons genetics is such a powerful tool for [...]

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