In 2013, Googles Sergey Brin separated from wife Anne Wojcicki, co-creator of DNA testing company 23andMe. The most obvious cause was a tangled Silicon Valley romance between Brin and Google Glass marketing manager Amanda Rosenberg, who was also dating then-Android VP Hugo Barra. At Vanity Fair, Vanessa Grigoriadis traces the story all the way back […]
Anne Wojcicki and her genetic sequencing company 23andMe are locked in a battle with the FDA. Even though it cant report results to customers right now, Wojcicki isnt letting herself get bogged down in the present. At SXSW 2014 she laid out her vision of the future of preventative medicine — one where affordable genome […]
If youve been mulling over getting screened by 23andMe for genetic risks like cancer, were afraid youll have to look elsewhere. The company has just announced that its suspending sales of its health-related personalized DNA kits to comply with the FDAs order, as the agency has yet to conduct tests to prove its accuracy. In […]
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