Thao Do, PhD., 23andMe’s Education and Academia Program ManagerAs schools were letting out for the summer, 23 professors and teachers from public and private universities, community colleges and Ivy League...

The future of health care revolves around data, and lots of it. Perhaps no one knows more about the potential of “Big Data” to revolutionize medical treatment than Michael Snyder,...

Equipped with pipe cleaners, pom poms, and a PowerPoint presentation on basic genetics, members of the 23andMe Education team headed back to school last week.   The team was at...

Genetic Ancestry Matters in Precision MedicineWebinar: 1/19/2017 11 am – 12 pm PTTo register go here. It’s long been known that disease risk is different among different ethnic groups, and...

Your DNA is both a recipe for life, and a record of it – a thread that links your story to the human story. As part of 23andMe’s program for...

A big part of our mission is to help advance genetics education.We had a rewarding opportunity to do so last Friday, as the 23andMe Education Team hosted a holiday event...

David Matthes When David Matthes teaches genetics to college freshmen using personal genomics, he sets his sights beyond effective instruction and beyond his classroom walls. He is trying to increase...

To teach his students a powerful lesson in genetics, Bryant McAllister, an associate professor of biology at the University of Iowa, poses a simple question. “Who are you?” Dr. McAllister...

Making genetics education fun and accessible has been core to our mission since we launched in 2007.  Understanding our genome is possibly the most exciting scientific discovery of our lifetime...