Remember that time you spit in a tube and mailed it? For science, people. I don’t want to know about any other purposes for which you may have done that. You have your reasons…
But that spit tube, the one that perhaps came in a 23andMe kit that you got under the Christmas tree one year, just for curiosity’s sake to see whether you really were 1/64th Cherokee or if Grandma Sue was full of shit, or to get a heads-up as to any genetic markers of heightened risk to certain diseases was written in your cards.
23andMe has been circling the drain for a while now, so it’s no surprise to hear that today it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and its CEO, Anne Wojcicki, has resigned. For its next moves, it’ll look to sell “
