23andMe Research
23andMe’s New Research Overview Page
To ensure that our customers can easily see how their contributions are making a difference, 23andMe created a new Research Overview page.
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Health and Traits
Breast Cancer Awareness Month
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a time to draw attention and support for the importance of early detection and treatment of this disease. As part of Breast Cancer Awareness…
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Ancestry
Indigenous Peoples’ Day
Today is Indigenous Peoples’ Day, embraced by a growing list of cities, states and universities in the United States, as an alternative to Columbus Day, and meant to recognize the…
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23andMe Customer Stories
Siblings reunite using 23andMe
Abandoned in Korea, siblings Justin and Renee reunite after 34 years later using 23andMe.
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Indigenous Peoples’ Day
Today is Indigenous Peoples’ Day, embraced by a growing list of cities, states and universities in the United States, as an alternative to Columbus Day, and meant to recognize the…
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The DNA Download, Take One
23andMe launched a new series of videos called the DNA Download, meant to make the complex science of genetics easy for anyone to understand. The first four videos look at some basic genetic concepts.
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Latino Ancestry
As part of National Hispanic Heritage Month, 23andMe is taking a moment to recognize the diversity in culture and genetics of those with Latino ancestry.
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Breast Cancer Awareness Month
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a time to draw attention and support for the importance of early detection and treatment of this disease. As part of Breast Cancer Awareness…
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Happy International Coffee Day
One day for International Coffee Day doesn’t seem good enough, but we’ll take it and look at how your genetics plays a role in caffeine consumption.Using data from other customers…
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23andMe Connects Brothers
Brothers connect using 23andMe and meet for the first time on the daytime talk show Pickler & Ben.
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Indigenous Peoples’ Day
Today is Indigenous Peoples’ Day, embraced by a growing list of cities, states and universities in the United States, as an alternative to Columbus Day, and meant to recognize the…
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The DNA Download, Take One
23andMe launched a new series of videos called the DNA Download, meant to make the complex science of genetics easy for anyone to understand. The first four videos look at some basic genetic concepts.
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Latino Ancestry
As part of National Hispanic Heritage Month, 23andMe is taking a moment to recognize the diversity in culture and genetics of those with Latino ancestry.
Read More
Breast Cancer Awareness Month
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a time to draw attention and support for the importance of early detection and treatment of this disease. As part of Breast Cancer Awareness…
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Happy International Coffee Day
One day for International Coffee Day doesn’t seem good enough, but we’ll take it and look at how your genetics plays a role in caffeine consumption.Using data from other customers…
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23andMe Connects Brothers
Brothers connect using 23andMe and meet for the first time on the daytime talk show Pickler & Ben.
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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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