Linda Avey - LeWeb 2008 interview
Linda Avey is the Co-Founder of 23andMe, a company which enables people to access and understand their own personal genetic information. Basically they are using the curiosity of a human being to find out more about themselves, but want to help them at the same time. As they describe it:
23andMe, Inc. is the leading personal genetics company dedicated to helping individuals understand their own genetic information through DNA analysis technologies and web-based interactive tools.We talk about
- what kind of information you get back and how to use it
- how many samples they have in their database and how they use it
- privacy and security of the data
- what they hope to track / research and share with others
- from anchestry up to "how much does coffee work on me?"
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The website has some great slideshows of the results, for example:
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