Archive for the tag '23andWe'

Dec 17 2009

23andMe H1N1 Flu Survey: Share Your Experience

Published by ErinC under 23andMe and you, news

By now, you’re probably sick of hearing about the 2009 H1N1 flu, also known as the swine flu.  But if you believe you’ve had it, and you’ve already recovered from your symptoms, please take a few minutes to complete our new survey.
There have been heard reports of people holding “swine flu parties” in hopes of [...]

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Dec 10 2009

23andMe Longevity Survey: Help Us Discover the Keys to Living a Long, Healthy Life

Published by joyce under 23andMe and you, news

From alchemists and the Philosopher’s Stone to Ponce de Leon and the Fountain of Youth, history is full of stories of people searching for a way to extend life indefinitely.  In recent years, discoveries about the biology of aging have brought us closer to that dream than ever before.  Now 23andMe is asking you, our [...]

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Oct 15 2009

23and¡Mi Cabeza!: A New Migraine Headache Survey

Here’s how it goes for me: a few afternoons a year, usually when I haven’t slept or eaten right, but sometimes for no apparent reason, I begin to sense a pressure behind my left eyebrow and to feel queasy. By now I know what’s coming, and I resign myself to another miserable evening and a [...]

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Mar 11 2009

A New Approach to Research: The 23andMe Parkinson’s Disease Initiative

Published by LindaA under news, our founders

By 23andMe Co-Founders Linda Avey and Anne Wojcicki
We started 23andMe with a simple, yet expansive, vision: to take DNA into the mainstream.  In order to demystify genetics, we thought the best approach was to give individuals access to their genomes and help them gain personalized insight into their own unique code.  This was our premise [...]

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Feb 26 2009

Researchers Make Progress In Understanding Crohn’s Disease By Looking At The Big Picture

Published by ErinC under news

Genome wide association (GWA) studies of SNPs are helping scientists learn about the underlying biology of many complex diseases. But even the most enthusiastic proponents of this relatively new type of research admit that many studies simply can’t find genetic variations that have real, but very small, effects.  This means information that might be useful [...]

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Jan 05 2009

23andWe: The First Annual Update

Published by joyce under 23andMe and you

By Joyce Tung and Amy Kiefer

It’s been an exciting seven months since we launched 23andWe, the arm of 23andMe that gives people an unprecedented opportunity to collaborate with us on cutting-edge genetic research. Since May, the amount of data we’ve collected has grown at a fast and furious pace. For those of us who are [...]

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Dec 19 2008

Three New Surveys from 23andWe Ask New Kinds of Questions

Published by MattC under news

Since 23andWe debuted in May, we’ve asked our customers about all sorts of things: their hair color, earwax consistency, whether they tend to look on life’s bright side. Sometimes people have been surprised to learn that something like your susceptibility to motion sickness — or even which way the hair swirls on top of your [...]

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Oct 24 2008

Meet the Team: Michelle Whirl Carrillo

Published by ErinC under inside 23andMe

Michelle is 23andMe’s curation manager. “Curation” often evokes images of an old scholar in a musty museum categorizing dinosaur bones for museum exhibits. But in the past decade or so, the term has also come to be used to describe scientists, usually in a biological field, organizing and annotating electronic data and scientific [...]

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Oct 03 2008

Meet the Team: Marcela

Published by ErinC under inside 23andMe, tales of 23andMe

Meet Marcela, a product manager at 23andMe. A product manager represents the customer’s needs while also considering engineering constraints and business requirements. Her most recent projects were focused on building the user experience of those who participate in research through 23andWe and helping to build the burgeoning 23andMe community.
Marcela on the 23andMe Service:
“I was [...]

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Oct 02 2008

23andMe Co-founders Announce Breast Cancer Initiative

Published by ErinC under news, our founders

23andMe is marking the 23rd anniversary of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month this October with an initiative to build a web-based forum dedicated to helping women who face the disease.
Co-founders Linda Avey and Anne Wojcicki told science and business leaders at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit today that we will be creating a specific breast [...]

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