May 29 2008
23andMe founders Anne Wojcicki (right) and Linda Avey on stage at D6 with hosts Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher
This morning 23andMe founders Anne Wojcicki and Linda Avey unveiled our new research effort, 23andWe, at the sixth All Things Digital Conference in Carlsbad, California.
23andWe gives our customers a new way to explore genetics while simultaneously contributing [...]
May 16 2008
Last week 23andMe founders Linda Avey and Anne Wojcicki were interviewed at the second annual New Yorker Conference by Michael Specter, a staff writer for the magazine. The theme of the conference was “Stories from the Near Future,” and boy, do we have some of those.
You can watch the video here.
Apr 29 2008
Muhammad Yunus at his alma mater in Chittagong, Bangladesh
23andMe presented yesterday at the 11th Milken Institute Global Conference, taking place through Wednesday in Los Angeles. The conference has a significant health care focus, with session topics ranging from “Is the Pharmaceutical Well Drying out?” to “What kind of Reform Makes Sense?”
There were also a [...]
Apr 01 2008
Linda Avey
Some customers who recently ordered our Personal Genome Service™ have had to wait more than the usual four to six weeks after spitting to get their genetic information. We know that it can be frustrating to wait when you are curious about what your genome holds, so we would like to apologize and offer [...]
Mar 17 2008
23andMe co-founders Linda Avey and Anne Wojcicki sat down at NBC’s Today Show on Friday as correspondent Peter Alexander took a look at his genome. Watch the video and learn about the Odds Calculator, ancestry and the genetics of earwax:
Feb 06 2008
Rate cuts, market meltdowns and global warming may have ruled the day at this year’s World Economic Forum – but spitting ruled the night.
Every evening in Davos scholars, celebs and politicos swarmed around our booth in a hallway of the main conference hotel, where 23andMe offered WEF attendees a free look at their DNA. All [...]
Jan 28 2008
23andMe made a big splash at last week’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Hundreds of conference attendees took us up on our offer of free genotyping, and on Friday 23andMe co-founder Linda Avey participated in a panel discussion with three of the world’s most eminent geneticists about the implications of giving people access to [...]
Jan 24 2008
On the way to this week’s World Economic Forum in Switzerland, 23andMe founders Linda Avey and Anne Wojcicki had the opportunity to spend a few minutes with geneticist Craig Venter, who made a name for himself by racing the federally-funded Human Genome Project to produce the first human genetic sequence. That contest ended in a [...]
Jan 21 2008
By 23andMe Co-Founder Linda Avey
Over the past several months the press has reported a steady stream of breakthroughs in genetics. In what the New York Times has called “a continuing wave of discoveries about the genes underlying common diseases,” studies have found genetic links to breast cancer, diabetes, Crohn’s disease, restless legs syndrome, glaucoma and [...]
Jan 21 2008
By 23andMe Co-Founder Anne Wojcicki
We started 23andMe to enable individuals to get access to their genetic information. Our DNA is a fascinating aspect of who we are, and we feel strongly that anyone who wants their genetic data should be able to get access to it. But we also started 23andMe [...]
