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The company's CEO assures investors there’s still plenty of money it can make on your genes

With the business in a tailspin, 23andMe’s CEO assures investors there’s still plenty of money it can make on your genes.

Children were playing in a wooded area on Jan. 12, 1985, in West Palm Beach when they stumbled upon human remains along a canal bank.

The consumer DNA harvesting king exposed 6.9 million people’s data. We’ll never know exactly what goes wrong from here.

A data breach that included genetic information affected almost half of 23andMe’s users.

A local woman's information was leaked after 23andMe was hacked

Accounts connected to a number of celebrities, including tech luminaries Elon Musk, Sergei Brin, and Mark Zuckerberg, were allegedly compromised as well.

CloudLIMS published a free, open-access eBook titled “A Comprehensive Guide to Regulatory Compliance for Biobanks”.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — More than 800 physicians, scientists, and health professionals have joined the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine to call on the medical journal Nutrients to stop publishing animal studies that violate the publication’s own ethical guidelines.

In 2006, researchers discovered that people with certain variants of the gene PCSK9 had dramatically lower cholesterol levels than the general population. Individuals with two broken copies of the gene — one from each parent — were up to 88 percent less likely to have coronary heart disease than people with functioning PCSK9 .