Sergey Brin’s wife, Anne Wojcicki run 23andme, the biotech company lets people take DNA tests to find out about themselves, and even how they may relate to others.

David writes of a blog post by entrepreneur Martin Varsavsky, who we’ve heard is well-informed about the project:

Maverick tech entrepreneur Martin Varsavsky, for instance, wrote on his blog in January that 23andMe will take in saliva samples through the mail, then subject them to a fast and relatively inexpensive genetic analysis. That data, he suggested, would go into a database that people could search for both personal and scientific reasons — a vision that, if true, would also help explain Google’s involvement, given the company’s oft-stated desire to index all of human knowledge…

Will Google create a DNA search engine for human?

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007 at 8:35 am | by Neezar |