Anne Wojcicki

In her talk, part of the Program on Science, Technology & Society at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, Wojcicki got more personal about why “I don’t want to bet (my health) on the people or system that is currently in place today.  

On the basis of their Parkinson’s giving, Mr. Brin and his wife, Anne Wojcicki, ranked 25th on The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s list of 2011 top donors.  

Online teaching website Khan Academy is showing two genetics education video series made by personal genetics company 23andMe Inc. The two organizations teamed up to celebrate “DNA Day,” which marks the date in 1953 when James Watston and Francis Crick and their colleagues published Nature articles on the double helix structure of DNA. The videos are titled Genetics 101 and Human Prehistory 101. 23andMe uses DNA analysis to help people...  

Two years ago, I spit into a plastic vial and sent it off to 23andMe for a genetic work-up. It wasn’t especially revelatory, though it has made me warier of my sweet tooth due to a higher than average risk of developing Diabetes 2. More ...  

23andMe has listened to its customers and decided to eliminate the subscription model beginning on Thursday, announcing the new price going forward will be $299. Existing customers who have already completed their subscription commitment of 12 months will not be required to pay the ongoing subscription in order to remain part of the 23andMe community and the rest of us will only be required to finish out the remaining portion of our initial 12...  

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- To celebrate DNA Day, Khan Academy, the world's online classroom, and 23andMe, a leading personal genetics company, are working together to promote the importance of genetics education. 23andMe's Genetics 101 and Human Prehistory...  

23andMe used its unique online platform to find five significant genetic associations for hypothyroidism in the largest known GWAS of hypothyroidism conducted to date. The details of the study are now available online in the journal PLoS ONE. Three of the significant associations, rs6679677, rs3184504, and rs2517532 in are known to be involved in other autoimmune diseases, and others reported are rs4915077 near VAV3 and rs925489 near FOXE1, a...  

Khan Academy and Google-backed personal genomics company 23andMe are partnering to teach the world about genomes and DNA. Khan Academy has added two series of videos made by 23andMe to its roster of educational clips. Appropriately enough, the two ...  

Mountain View, CA – April 20, 2012 – To celebrate DNA Day, Khan Academy, the world's online classroom, and 23andMe, a leading personal genetics company, are working together to promote the importance of genetics education. 23andMe's Genetics ...  

23andMe is dedicated to helping individuals understand their own genetic information through DNA analysis technologies and web-based interactive tools.  The company's Personal Genome Service® enables individuals to gain deeper insights into ...  

It’s 4/20, and you know exactly what that means: It’s National DNA Day! (What, were you expecting something else?) It seems like a match made in heaven of sorts, since both Khan Academy and 23andMe are services that have become favorites in ...  

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 20, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- To celebrate DNA Day, Khan Academy, the world's online classroom, and 23andMe, a leading personal genetics company, are working together to promote the importance of genetics ...  

It's 4/20, and you know exactly what that means: It's National DNA Day! (What, were you expecting something else?) Yep -- this is the official day to commemorate the 1953 publishing of the first scientific paper on the double-helix structure of DNA, which was famously co-authored by James Watson and Francis Crick (with the sometimes overlooked contributions of others.) Anyway, to celebrate, educational non-profit powerhouse Khan Academy has...  

Barbara Walters, Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick, Wanda Sykes and a host of celebrities are tracing their ancestry in the PBS series Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (http://www.pbs.org/findingyourroots) with the scientific help of leading ...  

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Barbara Walters, Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick, Wanda Sykes and a host of celebrities are tracing their ancestry in the PBS series Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (http://www.pbs ...  

Two common surgeries, prostate removal and hysterectomies ... (which is not provided by 23andme), which is a remarkable drop from the six-figure price tags of just a few years ago. The 23andme profile looks for selected SNPs, which are single-nucleotide ...  

I dined the other night with a college buddy visiting from the US. He told us that he recently spat into a bottle and sent the results to a company called 23andMe. You’re gagging, but hear me out. Using a saliva sample like this, 23andMe does some DNA ...