The direct-to-consumer DNA testing service 23andMe filed for bankruptcy earlier this month, putting millions of customers' ...

In 2007, 23andMe, named after the 23 pairs of chromosomes found in a human cell, was one of the first direct-to-consumer genetic testing companies to open in the United States. It was backed by a ...

Direct-to-consumer genetic testing services carry considerable privacy risks, as the bankruptcy filing of Cailfornia-based 23andMe has revealed.

Google, Apple, etc., take and use our data, we have chosen to ignore that for the convenience it affords us. Then there has perhaps never been such a case as 23andMe, which holds DNA and other ...

As a private company, 23andMe raised $1.1bn from investors including Google. But pressures arose after it went public via a Spac-merger in 2021. Mainstream investors were driven away by the high ...

That was the question posed to millions of Americans last week when 23andMe, the company that popularized consumer genetic testing and had early backing from Google, filed for bankruptcy ...

The stars “dutifully filled 23andMe’s test tubes with their saliva ... famously rented her Menlo Park garage to Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin – the latter became Anne ...

23andMe and its databases are located in California ... Other potential buyers include: Google, who were early investors and thus already part owners; Ancestry.com, which, with its own genetic ...

23andMe began nearly two decades ago when co-founder Linda Avey had the idea for a direct-to-consumer genetic testing service. Anne Wojcicki met Avey through her then-boyfriend, Google co-founder ...

Anne Wojcicki dreamed of a revolution in personal genomics and medicine. She set up 23andMe to realise her vision in 2006.