A new national survey shows a keen interest in DNA testing primarily driven by people’s desire to know more about their potential health risks.The survey, conducted by 23andMe in the…

Recorded in front of a live audience at this year’s SXSW conference in Austin, the latest episode of Spit, an iHeartRadio podcast with 23andMe tackles one of our most significant…

Using 23andMe Mindy and Cindy discovered that they are sisters and uncovered a twist to their story that only deepens their connections.

Orphaned during the Vietnam war and raised in France, Guillaume uses 23andMe to help him find family he thought had disappeared in the fog of war.

23andMe research participant Tony Garrett gives his perspective on why he is participating in research and his hopes for the future.

23andMe’s new report on TTR-related hereditary amyloidosis looks at the three most common variants associated with this little known and underdiagnosed genetic condition.

A new national survey shows a keen interest in DNA testing primarily driven by people’s desire to know more about their potential health risks.The survey, conducted by 23andMe in the…

Recorded in front of a live audience at this year’s SXSW conference in Austin, the latest episode of Spit, an iHeartRadio podcast with 23andMe tackles one of our most significant…

Using 23andMe Mindy and Cindy discovered that they are sisters and uncovered a twist to their story that only deepens their connections.

Orphaned during the Vietnam war and raised in France, Guillaume uses 23andMe to help him find family he thought had disappeared in the fog of war.

23andMe research participant Tony Garrett gives his perspective on why he is participating in research and his hopes for the future.

23andMe’s new report on TTR-related hereditary amyloidosis looks at the three most common variants associated with this little known and underdiagnosed genetic condition.

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…