The Evolution Of The Biohacking Ecosystem

dnahelix Silicon Valley efforts in the biology and health domains have recently seen increased public interest because of the questions around the legitimacy of Theranos’ technology and medical claims and the recent FDA approvals for a number of 23andMe’s genetic screens. These data points are just two of the most visible examples of a broad ecosystem of companies and startups in Silicon… Read More

FDA Clears 23andMe For All Health and Carrier Traits Testing

23andme-blimp Things are looking up for 23andMe. Right off a fresh $115 million cash infusion, the Food and Drug Administration is giving the direct-to-consumer DNA company the green light to include health and carrier traits, along with ancestry reports. This was not the scenario two years ago when the FDA put a moratorium on 23andMe’s ability to provide any health information associated with… Read More

Ancestry.com Welcomes AncestryHealth To The Family

zXrt_nN2sPkB-_UQYKY7G-jY74nOjFrQW-yUcTseh8w Family history site Ancestry launched a new generational health database called AncestryHealth today. The news comes right as AncestryDNA – Ancestry’s genetics site that connects those on the platform with distant relatives – announced it now has genotyped more than a million customers. Ancestry.com launched in the early 80’s and went public in 2009. It is now the… Read More

A Look Inside Silicon Valley’s Wild Biotech Accelerator IndieBio

Screen Shot 2015-07-05 at 11.29.56 AM Silicon Valley breeds the kind of people that dare to dream of technology that puts computers in the palm of our hands, make the world’s music library accessible wherever we go and plans to launch tiny satellites all over the world to bring global access to the Internet. Biotechnology is now taking shape alongside those other big ideas, thanks to reduced costs in robotics,… Read More

We Asked RockHealth Founder Halle Tecco About The Future Of Digital Medicine

rockhealth-edit_720 Health technology is becoming a big topic in 2015. We’re seeing wearable technology that can automatically upload our health data to the cloud, cellphones are becoming tools to connect us to the doctor’s office, a Google moonshot project detects cancer on an app and 23andMe has received FDA approval for at least one genetic test of a rare disease. This is now a multi-billion… Read More

Genomics Needs A Killer App

 Genomics has undergone a major shift in the last year. The drop in price in the past decade from $3B to $1K to sequence a genome is the 10X force likely to cause an inflection point in a number of health-related industries. But despite the price,…