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• Thats a Bad Cough, Lets Examine Your Genome [This Cyborg Life]

  
  Gizmodo — Authority: 897
  In 2003, we mapped the human genome, the 20,000-ish genes we all share. It cost $3 billion. Today, you can literally spit in a cup, place the saliva in the mail and get a peek at your own genome....
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• Long QT Syndrome, location matters

  
  Gene Sherpas: Personalized Medicine and You — Authority: 414
  I just saw a family who had Long QT with a KCNQ 1 mutation ripping through them. Which is why I loved this email I received from one of my long time readers the day after I saw them. Closer Look at Genetic Testing in Long-QT syndrome One of my favorite lines from this paper was " ...
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• Good Enough Science? Apparently so at 23andme

  
  Gene Sherpas: Personalized Medicine and You — Authority: 414
  "A total of 61 individuals involved in five norovirus outbreaks in Denmark were genotyped at nucleotides 428 and 571 of the FUT2 gene, determining secretor status, i.e., the presence of ABH antigens in secretions and on mucosa. A strong correlation (P 0.003) was found between the secretor phenotype and symptomatic ...
  5 days ago

• Did Mrs. Googles Company Curl Into the Googleplex To Die? [Rumormonger]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 864
  For a company with deep support from Google, 23andMe seems awfully beset by problems: Two layoff rounds in five months and the departure of a co-founder. So when we hear the company is "hemorrhaging...
  6 days ago

• Did Mrs. Googles Company Curl Into the Googleplex To Die?

  
  Gawker: Valleywag — Authority: 632
  For a company with deep support from Google, 23andMe seems awfully beset by problems: Two layoff rounds in five months and the departure of a co-founder. So when we hear the company is "hemorrhaging cash," were inclined to believe it. The genetics-testing startup, co-founded by Anne Wojcicki , the wife of a Google ...
  6 days ago

• Away and now back, What did I miss???? Selling Genomes for cheap up next!

  
  Gene Sherpas: Personalized Medicine and You — Authority: 414
  23andSerge has layoffs , big surprise. When Linda left , she had a tribe that left too. I am working on hiring one or 2 and will see what exactly was going on over there...... GAPPNet has their first meeting, which I missed. I will email Dr. Khoury and find out how it went. Daniel MacArthur pointing ...
  1 week ago

• 23andMe set to cut short workforce

  
  Startup Meme — Authority: 509
  The much famed startup, 23andMe whose founder is Sergey Brin’s wife that exists with a purpose to make human DNA searchable is in some trouble. The startup after raising a healthy $3.9 Million from Google is planning a few layoffs. There has been no confirmation or clue as to how many of the employees will ...
  1 week ago

• Number 1. The Retail DNA Test - The Best Invention of 2008

  
  Today's Top Voted Bookmarks — Authority: 151
  Number 1. The Retail DNA Test - The Best Invention of 2008 Learning and sharing your genetic secrets are at the heart of 23andMes controversial new service %u2014 a $399 saliva test that estimates your predisposition for more than 90 traits and conditions ranging from baldness to blindness. ...
  2 weeks ago

• An Incomplete for 23andMe’s Carrier Testing

  
  QUEST Community Science Blog - KQED — Authority: 123
  What can genetic testing tell you? A while back I took a 23andMe genetic test that looks at over 600,000 different spots on my DNA. The last few blogs I have been going over my genetic test results with an eye on how useful they are. And how well the results are explained. Last blog I wrote about how current ...
  2 weeks ago

• Excuse Me? Harvard and Navigenics? WTF?

  
  Gene Sherpas: Personalized Medicine and You — Authority: 414
  Ok , So I was blown away when I read this juicy little tid bit from Genome Web. NEW YORK ( GenomeWeb News) – Navigenics and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston announced today that they will collaborate on training physicians in personal genomic testing. Amazing! I had spoken with Mike ...
  2 weeks ago

• The US 101 Effect

  
  Digital Nomads — Authority: 108
    I recently spent a couple weeks in the U.S., working and exploring, away from my life in Belgium, trying to grasp a sense of what makes the Silicon Valley the birthplace of the most innovative technology our world has ever seen. Why do new technologies pop up so quickly? And, how do they get very rapidly ...
  3 weeks ago

• Privacy implications of 23andme

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 638
  What are the privacy implications of ordering the 23andme DNA test? I am quite interested in ordering a 23andme test. The only thing that is holding me back is a concern that I might be crossing a privacy boundary I will later regret. Ive heard a lot of ominous things about 23andmes connection to Google, how it ...
  3 weeks ago

• Do These Genes Make Me Look Diabetic?

  
  QUEST Community Science Blog - KQED — Authority: 123
  Could a genetic test have told me I was at a higher risk for developing type 2 diabetes? Image source: aldenchadwick This sounds contrived but it isnt.  A couple of weeks ago I was diagnosed with metabolic syndrome .  Right when I am in the middle of talking about genetic testing! Metabolic syndrome isn’t ...
  4 weeks ago

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