Soapbox Science: 23 and Me CEO Wojcicki on turning 150,000 DNA tests into a research database : Soapbox Science
abernard102@gmail.com 2012-09-27
Summary:
Use the link to access the full text transcript of the interview introduced as follows: "23andMe, which started out in 2006 as a 'personal genome service,' offers DNA analysis to consumers for $299 over the Internet. Now the California-based company is building a research program with crowdsourced data from its 150,000 customers. Company scientists have published several papers. They are working with the FDA to establish standards for consumer-level DNA analysis. Genentech has tapped 23andMe for postmarking research. And this summer, the company bought CureTogether – a website that collects data from online patient networks. Last week, 23andMe co-founder and CEO Anne Wojcicki came to Cambridge, Mass. at the invitation of the local chapter of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. She spoke to our Boston blogger, Tinker Ready, after a talk at the Broad Institute auditorium."