Biotech start-ups utilizing genetic information are nothing new. Could 23andMe be unique? Yesterday, I received a nice email from their recruiting manager, Oliver Ryan. As luck would have it, I’m vacationing in the San Francisco Bay Area and hope to swing a meeting with some 23andMe folks next week, including Anne Wojcicki and Linda Avey. If there’s anything you’d like to me to ask, email me or leave a comment here.
From the little information that’s available on their website, 23andMe sounds like one-stop shopping for personal genomic information.
23andMe is an early stage startup developing tools and producing content to help …read more

In celebration of their 30th anniversary, Genentech (check out their domain name, is that perfect or what?) has donated $2.5 million to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL). The gift will be used to establish the Genentech Center for the History of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology at the CSHL Carnegie Building where genetics research got its start. The work of molecular biology pioneers will be archived at the Center:

James D. Watson
Sydney Brenner
Barbara McClintock
Hermann J. Muller

San Francisco Chronicle, April 6, 2006