Apr 02 2009
The 23andMe Personal Genome Service™ offers information about customers’ maternal and paternal ancestry by examining their mitochondrial DNA (which we all inherit from our mothers) and the Y chromosome (which is passed by fathers to their sons).
Over our species’ history new genetic variations have arisen spontaneously in those pieces of DNA, and been passed down [...]
Oct 30 2008
Editor’s Note: This week TIME Magazine is naming the 23andMe Personal Genome Service™ its Invention of the Year, an honor that the publication has previously bestowed on innovations such as the iPhone and YouTube. This post by Director of Products Alex Wong (back row, second from right) offers a glimpse at how 23andMe came to [...]
Oct 10 2008
23andMe is always looking for ways not just to give our customers more data, but to help them better understand their genetic information and what it means for them. This week, we’re introducing a new way to look at Health and Traits data that does just that by pinpointing for each person the particular topics [...]
May 14 2008
Could this be Lilly Mendel?
The judges have met and a winner has been chosen.
In the first 23andMe Win Your Genome Contest, the challenge was to describe Lilly Mendel – a real person whose data are presented in the 23andMe demo account – based on her genetic information alone. As we declared in the announcement of [...]
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 [...]
