Making Sense of Next-Generation Sequencing Data
What a difference a year makes for Illumina. Unlike last year, Illumina has started this year on a strong foot; Roche chief says Illumina is not a must have, but nice to have and Illumina announces the acquisition of Verinata Health, a non-invasive prenatal testing company. The year 2012 was a busy year for many personal [...]
23andMe announced that it has raised more than $50 Million dollars in a fresh round of financing. One of the contributors to the new round of funding is Yuri Milner – the russian venture capitalist who also funded Facebook and Twitter. Other investors are Sergey Brin, 23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki, New Enterprise Associates, Google Ventures [...]
Yet another discount on 23andME’s DNA kit. This time 23andMe itself is offering $50 off from its $299 personal DNA kit as part of its summer special offer. The new 23andMe $50 discount was sent to existing customers to add their family members to 23andMe. However, the $50 discount comes with the deadline; it is [...]
Earlier we reported that CureTogether, a startup company acquired by 23andMe, is offering a exclusive $60 discount coupon for 23andMe personal genomics DNA kit. The special coupon code allows one to buy the 23andMe personal DNA kit for $239 instead of $299. Now we are able to get the coupon to NextGenSeek.com‘s audience to use [...]
23andMe, the California based personal genetics company, announced that it is making its first acquisition by buying CureTogether. CureTogether was founded by Alexandra Carmichael and Daniel Reda in 2008. It is a patient-sourced company founded with the aim of making chronic medical conditions social and spread the collective treatment benefits to everyone. CureTogerther is currently [...]
Pathway Genomics and 23andMe, the consumer genomics companies, have teamed up with Harvard Medical School (Brigham and Women’s Hospital) and University of Michigan to study the impact of personal genomics studies. The impact of personal genomics study named PGen, hopes to throw more light on the expectations of consumers of personal genomic services, their motivations [...]
23andMe the personal genomics company based in California announced that it is modifying its pricing structure for its genetic test kit. The biggest upshot is that 23andMe’s personal genomic service prize is just one time $299, instead of fixed one time payment plus monthly subscription of $9 for a year. 23andMe is saying that the [...]
OpenSNP, the crowd sourced open genomics effort, announced that it will choose a number of individuals for free 23andMe genotyping if you are willing to share the data to the public (and from underrepresented countries). It is very well known that the available genomic data resources are biased towards populations originated from Europe. It nicely [...]
23andMe offered a special discount on its test kit during the holiday season. Instead of the regular $99 plus $9 per month for a year, 23andMe offered a $23 discount. The special offer could not be refused and became a nice holiday gift. The kit came in a nice small package, the box was actually [...]
Holidays are almost here. The personal genomics company, 23andMe is enticing with a special discount offer on its Personal Genome Kit offer, to make the holidays little bit more interesting for the curious minds. On 23andMe’s website, 23andMe is advertising $10 off from its $99 genome kit (plus $9 per month subscription for [...]
