23andMe Research
23andMe Now Enrolling For A New Genetic Study on Depression and Bipolar Disorder
In collaboration with The Milken Institute and Lundbeck, 23andMe is launching a groundbreaking new study leveraging 23andMe’s unique research model to look at the genetics underlying depression and bipolar disorder.In…
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Health and Traits
Science With A Little Altitude
23andMe scientist collects data while trekking to Everest base camp to record in real time the impact of altitude on the human body. With enough data from people it may be possible to see why some of us do better than others at higher elevations.
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Ancestry
The Paternal-Line Story Written In Your DNA
23andMe’s new and improved Paternal Haplogroup report, allows customers to trace the footsteps of their paternal-line ancestors over thousands of generations of human history.
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23andMe Customer Stories
Ryan’s Search For Family
Ryan used 23andMe to help him find his biological parents, after decades of search.
Read MoreRyan’s Search For Family
Ryan used 23andMe to help him find his biological parents, after decades of search.
Read MoreUsing 23andMe To Find Family
Paul spent years trying to find his biological father, then using 23andMe he was able to find a half brother, four sisters and the identity of his biological father.
Read MoreThe Paternal-Line Story Written In Your DNA
23andMe’s new and improved Paternal Haplogroup report, allows customers to trace the footsteps of their paternal-line ancestors over thousands of generations of human history.
Read MoreScience With A Little Altitude
23andMe scientist collects data while trekking to Everest base camp to record in real time the impact of altitude on the human body. With enough data from people it may be possible to see why some of us do better than others at higher elevations.
Read MoreListen To Annie’s Story
Annie was looking at a note from a woman she didn’t know. Someone she’d been searching for all her life. A woman named Harley, who just might be her biological…
Read MoreRyan’s Search For Family
Ryan used 23andMe to help him find his biological parents, after decades of search.
Read MoreUsing 23andMe To Find Family
Paul spent years trying to find his biological father, then using 23andMe he was able to find a half brother, four sisters and the identity of his biological father.
Read MoreThe Paternal-Line Story Written In Your DNA
23andMe’s new and improved Paternal Haplogroup report, allows customers to trace the footsteps of their paternal-line ancestors over thousands of generations of human history.
Read MoreScience With A Little Altitude
23andMe scientist collects data while trekking to Everest base camp to record in real time the impact of altitude on the human body. With enough data from people it may be possible to see why some of us do better than others at higher elevations.
Read MoreListen To Annie’s Story
Annie was looking at a note from a woman she didn’t know. Someone she’d been searching for all her life. A woman named Harley, who just might be her biological…
Read MoreColonists and Colon Cancer
When Mr. and Mrs. George Fry arrived in the New World nearly four centuries ago, they brought with them not just dreams of a better life, but a curse —…
Read MoreParty Till You Spit
A Spit Party is kind of like a Tupperware Party, only the plastic containers are smaller and they’re not for leftovers.23andMe held the first one a few days after our…
Read MoreBreakthrough of the Year
A certain provider of personal genetic information is mentioned in Science magazine’s Breakthrough of the Year article, published in the Dec. 21 issue.The journal bestowed 2007 BotY honors on “Human…
Read MoreSilly Rabbit, Spit Comes from Quids
A few years back, archaeologist Anna Dhody was thinking about how amazing it is that DNA forensic scientists can collect DNA evidence from nothing more than a discarded cigarette butt…
Read MoreSex, money, dancing, eating….and voles?
At the end of last year (2007) you may have seen reports claiming that scientists in Israel discovered the “gene for altruism.” What they actually found was that a variation…
Read MoreMy Genome is in a Tube of Spit?
Spit has DNA? Well, not exactly. Spit has cells in it, and the cells have DNA. For everything except bacteria (and some other types of single-celled organisms), DNA is wound…
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