Your DNA offers much more than just insights into your origins, it may help you map out your next travel itinerary. 23andMe and Airbnb are teaming up to offer customers a…

Shauna Harrison writes about using 23andMe and finding 29 siblings all from the same donor dad and what it’s like to meet strangers with whom you share so much DNA.

Put up your feet and check out two new 23andMe trait reports that look all the way down to your toes. Using a statistical model and data from almost half a…

23andMe has added 12 new countries and three new reports to improve results for customers with Latin American and Caribbean ancestry.

Last week, a few 23andMe customers came together for a special brunch and a chance to celebrate their first Mother’s Day with the birth moms they discovered, with the help…

Starting today, 23andMe Health + Ancestry Service customers can access a new Health Community page, focused on hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), the most common form of inherited heart disease. The new HCM…

Your DNA offers much more than just insights into your origins, it may help you map out your next travel itinerary. 23andMe and Airbnb are teaming up to offer customers a…

Shauna Harrison writes about using 23andMe and finding 29 siblings all from the same donor dad and what it’s like to meet strangers with whom you share so much DNA.

Put up your feet and check out two new 23andMe trait reports that look all the way down to your toes. Using a statistical model and data from almost half a…

23andMe has added 12 new countries and three new reports to improve results for customers with Latin American and Caribbean ancestry.

Last week, a few 23andMe customers came together for a special brunch and a chance to celebrate their first Mother’s Day with the birth moms they discovered, with the help…

Starting today, 23andMe Health + Ancestry Service customers can access a new Health Community page, focused on hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), the most common form of inherited heart disease. The new HCM…

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 —…

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 Breakthrough of the Year…

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…

(Editor’s note 3/19: A lot has changed since we first started our blog, which was once cheekily dubbed The Spittoon. But the most important principals still drive us. Helping people…

23andMe enables individuals to form communities around shared interests and to empower those communities to be actively involved with research

It’s hard to believe that unwillingness to share data is one of the biggest obstacles to the advancement of science today. But researchers and the institutions they work for expend…