Jun 26 2008
Barack Obama, Angelina Jolie and Ned Flanders all belong to a group whose members have been referred to as weak, gauche and even downright sinister. These terms are used, in various parts of the world, to describe left-handed people.
Since right-handers outnumber southpaws by approximately 9 to 1, it’s not hard to imagine why there’s a [...]
Jun 24 2008
This morning 23andMe bravely went were no other personal genome service has gone before – Second Life!
Bertalan Mesko of scienceroll.com kindly arranged for us (ErinC and joyce) to give a presentation about our company on Second Nature, an island operated in Second Life by the Nature Publishing Group. We talked about the basics [...]
Jun 24 2008
SNPwatch gives you the latest news about research linking various traits and conditions to individual genetic variations. These studies are exciting because they offer a glimpse into how genetics may affect our bodies and health; but in most cases, more work is needed before this research can provide information of value to individuals. For that [...]
Jun 21 2008
For the past 100 years, there has been a mysterious disease afflicting Icelanders. Called Hereditary Cystatin C Amyloid Angiopathy (or HCCAA), it causes severe brain hemorrhages and dementia in young adults. For those individuals who have the disease, life expectancy is usually no higher than 30 years. Scientists have determined that this [...]
Jun 13 2008
The 1000 Genomes Project, an ambitious international research project to completely sequence the genomes of 1,000 people from all over the world in three years, announced this week that it will be getting help from three companies in the form of new sequencing technology.
“It is a win-win arrangement for all involved,” consortium co-chair [...]
Jun 11 2008
SNPwatch gives you the latest news about research linking various traits and conditions to individual genetic variations. These studies are exciting because they offer a glimpse into how genetics may affect our bodies and health; but in most cases, more work is needed before this research can provide information of value to individuals. For that [...]
Jun 09 2008
Jonathan Pritchard
Congratulations to 23andMe’s scientific advisors Michael Eisen and Jonathan K. Pritchard, part of the latest class of Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators.
Eisen and Pritchard were selected along with 54 others from over 1,000 applicants vying for this year’s HHMI research grants. The Institute has earmarked $600 million in funds for what they described as [...]
May 27 2008
SNPwatch gives you the latest news about research linking various traits and conditions to individual genetic variations. These studies are exciting because they offer a glimpse into how genetics may affect our bodies and health; but in most cases, more work is needed before this research can provide information of value to individuals. For that [...]
May 23 2008
Just when you thought everything was starting to make sense – new genetic research on the peopling of the Americas throws us a curve.
There has been plenty of research in both genetics and archaeology recently trying to figure out how the New World was colonized. Was it by boat or via the frozen wasteland [...]
May 21 2008
President Bush has signed GINA, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, into law.
The legislation, which passed Congress last month after languishing for more than a decade, will make it illegal for employers or health insurers to discriminate on the basis of genetics. Genetic information will still be fair game in life insurance or long-term care coverage, [...]
