The Latest Breaking News from 23andMe

On Oct. 6, news broke that 23andMe, the Google-owned company that collects genetic material from thousands of people for ancestry and genetic predisposition tests, had a massive data breach.

Troves of pilfered user information are frequently being published online by hackers

The supermodel said she was ‘spiralling’ after a genetic test showed an 100 per cent match with an ‘identical twin’

Chrissy Teigen shared a wild story about a 23andMe result that had her spiraling over the thought of having an identical twin.

More than 30 million people across the world have used a DNA testing kit. But third parties, like the police and pharmaceutical corporations, could be legally accessing this data.

Family of Melissa Highsmith say Fort Worth police failed to properly investigate her abduction in 1971

Family of Melissa Highsmith say Fort Worth police failed to properly investigate her abduction in 1971

Genetics have the potential to transform how we predict, prevent, and treat almost all human disease, writes 23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki.

In a recent article from Nature Genetics_, scientists raise concerns over the social impacts of recent advances in genomics - i.e. the study of genomes, or in other words, the genetic material of an individual or species. In passages bringing to mind the dystopian sci-fi film Gattaca, they describe a…