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23andMe Has a Blog

By Elaine Schattner, MD, on March 9th, 2011
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Today and tomorrow, the FDA is holding a two-​​​​day advisory panel meeting on direct-​​​​to-​​​​consumer (DTC) clinical genetic testing. 23andMe is one of the big stake­holders in this issue, as I have con­sidered here and elsewhere.

So I dis­covered 23andMe’s blog, The Spittoon. Of course.

(Get it? You provide saliva into a con­tainer, and the company per­forms your genomic DNA analysis.)

The site, written by “the people of 23andme,” is dec­o­rated with col­orful, abstracted and sim­plified, criss­crossing chro­mosome forms.

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DNA Comes Home, or Maybe Not

By Elaine Schattner M.D., on May 25th, 2010
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Earlier this month employees at most of 7500 Wal­greens phar­macies geared up to stock a new item on their shelves: a saliva sampler for per­sonal genetic testing. On May 11, offi­cials at Pathway Genomics, a San Diego-​​based biotech firm, announced they’d sell over-​​the-​​counter spit kits for around $25 through an arrangement with the retailer. A curious con­sumer could follow the simple package instruc­tions and send their stuff in a plastic tube, pro­vided in a handy box with pre-​​paid postage, for DNA analysis.

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