Sergey Brin's wife creates a social network on human chromosomes

The founders of the biotechnology company 23andMe, Anna Wojcicki (Anne Wojcicki) and Linda Avey (Linda Avey) gave a great interview in which they spoke about the essence of their unique business, which for the first time in the world combines a personal genetics web service and social networks.

The company 23andMe (can be translated as “23 chromosomes and I”) received solid venture financing from Google shortly after Anna Woitsitzky and Sergey Brin formally sealed their long-term relationship with marriage . It would seem that in this way Sergey simply thanked the woman who sheltered him and Larry Page in his garage a long time ago when they didn’t have enough money to rent an office for the future Google. But now it is clear that these investments are not made at all about cronyism, but because the company 23andMe is developing truly revolutionary technologies.

Starting from yesterday, every 23andMe site visitor can order a special device for taking genetic material. The sample taken is sent to the laboratory (for now the laboratory is only in the USA, but in the future a whole network will be opened around the world). There is an analysis of the material , and all information comes to the personal genome account on the site 23andMe. In this social network, users can search for unknown relatives and identify common ancestors up to the Stone Age.

The first part of the interview

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Second part of the interview


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