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is a privately held company developing new ways to help you make sense of your own genetic information.

Even though your body contains trillions of copies of your genome, you've likely never read any of it. Our goal is to connect you to the 23 paired volumes of your own genetic blueprint (plus your mitochondrial DNA), bringing you personal insight into ancestry, genealogy, and inherited traits. By connecting you to others, we can also help put your genome into the larger context of human commonality and diversity.

Toward this goal, we are building on recent advances in DNA analysis technologies to enable broad, secure, and private access to trustworthy and accurate individual genetic information. Combined with educational and scientific resources with which to interpret and understand it, your genome will soon become personal in a whole new way.

More Info HERE: http://23andme.com

For the Parrotheads out there...you know who you are!

Warren Buffett Is No Parrothead
By Rick Aristotle Munarriz May 30, 2007

Parrotheads are now free to boot the Oracle of Omaha from any upcoming Buffett family reunions. Biotech upstart 23andMe has determined that you have to go back 10,000 years to find the last ancestor that tropical crooner Jimmy Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A) (NYSE: BRK-B) frontman Warren Buffett have in common.

Both famous Buffetts submitted to DNA sample requests -- saliva samples, OK? -- earlier this year. The company then ran the appropriate tests to debunk, once and for all, the myth that the two are actually distant cousins.

From the Motley Fool's May 30th issue: http://www.fool.com/investing/value/2007/05/30/warren-buffett-is-no-parrothead.aspx