23andMe Research
Fast Recruitment for 23andMe’s Global Genetics Project
23andMe’s Global Genetics Project aims to enroll more than 10,000 people over two years from communities in Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas, who are not currently well represented in genetic research. The data will help diversity 23andMe’s database and thus improve results for our customers; it will also boost genomic studies in underrepresented populations worldwide.
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Health and Traits
23andMe’s Team of Genetic Counselors
As part of Genetic Counselor Awareness Day, we’re introducing three of the genetic counselors we have on staff at 23andMe and the important work they do.
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Ancestry
23andMe Help Connect Siblings for A Reunion Decades in the Making
Brian, an adoptee raised in California, used 23andMe to find first his brother JJ and then two more brothers and two sisters. They all met this year in Ohio for a reunion.
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23andMe Customer Stories
23andMe Reunites Yadira’s Family
23andMe helps a woman find her family, reuniting her with three siblings and letting her learn about her mother who died tragically at a young age.
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23andMe Help Connect Siblings for A Reunion Decades in the Making
Brian, an adoptee raised in California, used 23andMe to find first his brother JJ and then two more brothers and two sisters. They all met this year in Ohio for a reunion.
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23andMe Now Available in UK at Boots Online
Late last month, 23andMe added a new path for customers to purchase our Health+Ancestry Service in the United Kingdom by making our kits available online at Boots. Boots is the…
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23andMe Helps You Write The Story of Your DNA
23andMe is offering a way for its customers to create a beautifully printed book called “The Story of Your DNA,” that contains all their ancestry results, plus details of what their DNA says about their roots across the globe,
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23andMe Reunites Yadira’s Family
23andMe helps a woman find her family, reuniting her with three siblings and letting her learn about her mother who died tragically at a young age.
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23andMe Named One of the Best Places to Work in 2019 on Glassdoor
23andMe is among the winners of Glassdoor’s annual Employees’ Choice Awards, a list of the Best Places to Work in 2019.
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Fast Recruitment for 23andMe’s Global Genetics Project
23andMe’s Global Genetics Project aims to enroll more than 10,000 people over two years from communities in Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas, who are not currently well represented in genetic research. The data will help diversity 23andMe’s database and thus improve results for our customers; it will also boost genomic studies in underrepresented populations worldwide.
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23andMe Help Connect Siblings for A Reunion Decades in the Making
Brian, an adoptee raised in California, used 23andMe to find first his brother JJ and then two more brothers and two sisters. They all met this year in Ohio for a reunion.
Read More
23andMe Now Available in UK at Boots Online
Late last month, 23andMe added a new path for customers to purchase our Health+Ancestry Service in the United Kingdom by making our kits available online at Boots. Boots is the…
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23andMe Helps You Write The Story of Your DNA
23andMe is offering a way for its customers to create a beautifully printed book called “The Story of Your DNA,” that contains all their ancestry results, plus details of what their DNA says about their roots across the globe,
Read More
23andMe Reunites Yadira’s Family
23andMe helps a woman find her family, reuniting her with three siblings and letting her learn about her mother who died tragically at a young age.
Read More
23andMe Named One of the Best Places to Work in 2019 on Glassdoor
23andMe is among the winners of Glassdoor’s annual Employees’ Choice Awards, a list of the Best Places to Work in 2019.
Read More
Fast Recruitment for 23andMe’s Global Genetics Project
23andMe’s Global Genetics Project aims to enroll more than 10,000 people over two years from communities in Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas, who are not currently well represented in genetic research. The data will help diversity 23andMe’s database and thus improve results for our customers; it will also boost genomic studies in underrepresented populations worldwide.
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Colonists 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 —…
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Party 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…
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Breakthrough 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…
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Silly 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…
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Sex, 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…
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My 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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