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Welcome to The Future, A Place Where Everyone Knows Your Genetic Code
People all over the world are starting to learn the secrets encoded in their DNA. They want to learn about what diseases they might some day have or what diseases they might pass on to their children....
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At-Home Medical Tests Are Putting the Power of the Clinic in Your Hands
Power to the Patient Medicine is coming to your living room. In fact, you could argue that it’s already there. The first at-home pregnancy kit hit the U.S. market in 1976 (then it was called E.P.T. —...
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23andMe Cleared to Sell Genetic Tests for Cancer Risk
Detecting Cancer Genomics and biotech company 23andMe now has approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to sell consumers a DNA kit that tests for cancer risk. This is the first time the FDA...
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Home Genetic Tests Could Be Giving You False Results
Home genetic tests like 23andMe have grown more popular, and so too have stories of people surprised by their results. Sometimes they're whimsical, like the German family that discovered they're...
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DNA Marketplace Helix Will Offer Tests For Serious Diseases. 23andMe Is About...
Genetic tests that were once only available through doctors are now sent right to your mailbox. PerkinElmer and its consumer genomics marketplace, Helix, have announced that they will soon start...
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By Turning Down 23andMe, Immigration Activists Are Actually Being Responsible...
23andMe offered to genetically test undocumented migrants. Fortunately, some smart people said "no, thanks." Some quick background in case you were holding your hands over your ears last week: the U.S....
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23andMe is Teaming Up With A Pharma Company. You Shouldn't Be Surprised.
BIG MONEY, BIG PHARMA. Want to unlock the secrets hidden in your DNA? Go for it, as long as you're prepared to have those secrets shared with Big Pharma. On Wednesday, 23andMe announced a four-year...
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We Asked a Genetic Counselor About 23andMe's New Cancer Test
Over the Counter 23andMe is already allowed to screen customers for mutations associated with an increased risk of breast cancer. Now the FDA has granted the company approval to sell a...
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23andMe Is Updating Ancestry Results Without Telling Users
Rewriting History If you took a genetic ancestry test through a company like 23andMe, you may want to go back and give your results a second look. That's because as the company gathers more data and...
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23andMe Just Opened a Pop-Up Shop in a Mall
23andMe is moving out of the home and into the mall. The popular at-home DNA testing company just opened its first store, a new Bloomberg story reveals, launching a pop-up retail shop at the Westfield...
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Chinese 23andMe Knockoff Gives Different Results From 23andMe
23Mofang, a Chinese DNA testing startup that's highly similar to 23andMe — down to its name — is giving customers some interesting results. Notably, it totally missed Bloomberg reporter K. Oanh Ha's...
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As DNA Test Sales Plummet, 23andMe Lays off 100 Workers
People just aren't buying home DNA testing kits like they used to — and that's bad news for anyone who depends on those sales for a paycheck. Case in point: On Thursday, genetic testing company 23andMe...
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23andMe Can Now Tell You If Your DNA Puts You at a Higher Risk for Diseases
Direct-To-Consumer 2.0 On April 6, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) changed course on genetic testing kits from 23andMe, indicating that the company can now directly tell consumers when...
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23andMe Releases Devastating Analysis of Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
By combining genetic ancestry reports with existing historical documentation, The New York Times reports, 23andMe and a team of historians were able to piece together new discoveries about the...
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DNA Tests Have a Nasty Side Effect: Discovering Your Parents' Secrets
DNA tests promise to detail customers' ancestry — but in some cases, what the companies find is far more surprising than expected. In a profile about unexpected DNA results, the BBC reported that an...
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Hackers Selling Stolen Customer DNA Data From 23AndMe
After reports of a massive user data hack began circulating online, the consumer DNA sequencing company 23andMe has acknowledged a breach that's seemingly led to its customers' genetic info circulating...
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Oops! 23andMe Admits Hackers Stole 7 Million Customers' Genetic Data
On the internet, nothing is safe — not even your DNA, apparently. That's the dystopian lesson from the commercial genetic testing company 23andMe, which disclosed on Friday in a regulatory filing that...
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DNA Tests Are a Fun Holiday Gift... Unless They Reveal a Horrifying Secret
The holiday season means presents galore — but in the case of at-home DNA tests, some gifts may be better left unopened. As experts told USA Today, the prevalence of self-serve DNA testing has made it...
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23andMe Has Lost Billions, Almost Worthless Now
Direct-to-consumer DNA testing company 23andMe, once a tech unicorn known for organizing "spit parties" featuring notable celebrities, is burning cash at an astonishing rate. Its valuation, once...
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23andMe CEO Says Company Is Doing Fine Despite Losing 93% of Stock Value
The consumer genome sequencing company 23andMe is a sinking ship – and its CEO is conducting the orchestra. As Wired reports, 23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki was chipper on a February 7 earnings call despite...
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