linked to by 4Google has invested $3.9 million in 23andMe along with Genentech and two venture capital firms, New Enterprise Associates and Mohr Davido Ventures. 23andMe is a personal genome company that wants to help consumers get in tune with their genes. Check out the...
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*in an imaginary future*Today is the day I get the sequencing results back. It is going be interesting to have finally a glimpse of my very own genome. At the same time I am afraid of the potential disease associations they might find in there. In any case...
linked to by 223andMe has been the subject of much discussion in the biotech and personalized medicine circles of the blogosphere (See here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here for plenty of information/speculation/discussion).In August, 23andMe announced (23andMe...
When is personal genomics company 23andMe launching? Not sure but they’ve apparently moved into new headquarters. Here’s a shot labeled 23andBikes from Esther Dyson’s Flickr photostream.She says:the new HQ for 23andMe - still short of a bike...
I’ve recently got a kind letter from one of my readers who wanted to tell me about an announcement of Helicos BioSciences:Helicos BioSciences Corporation announced today the start of its manufacturing operations in support of the commercial launch of...
23andMe investor Martin Varsavsky made the following comment in a VentureBeat post about Google’s investment in the personal genome company:…Having said this it is not really Google here. It is [co-founders] Anne [Wojcicki] and Linda [Avey] running...
Okay, gossip really isn't my thing and I'm not going to make a habit of it, but I'm really kind of surprised by this. Tech crunch (as I learned from Deepak and Eye on DNA) has a post on 23 and me that is quite bothersome. Apparently, one of the Google founders...
linked to by 1How similar do you think you are to the average person in Quebec? Assuming you’re not from Quebec originally1, of course. Would you think results from a DNA study of Quebec residents applied to you?The reason I ask is because Quebec will soon have a databank...
Speaking of the $1000 genome, if you haven’t visited the 23andMe main page recently, you’ll probably want to check it out. The site has been redesigned and includes links to an About page and a Press Release page, a Contact page, and the Jobs page....