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23andMe

  • Sunday, 1 June, 2025
    23andMe founder says Fortune 500 company backs new buyout offer

    Anne Wojcicki calls for fresh bankruptcy auction of genetic testing company after Regeneron won bidding

    Anne Wojcicki, co-founder and chief executive of 23andMe, during the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, in 2023
  • Tuesday, 20 May, 2025
    Lex
    23andMe sale grafts a happy ending on to a glum tale Premium content

    Being spliced on to Regeneron will free the genetic testing company from its fatal dependence on sporadic revenue

    Anne Wojcicki, co-founder and ex-chief executive of 23andMe
  • Monday, 19 May, 2025
    Pharmaceuticals sector
    23andMe sold out of bankruptcy to Regeneron

    Drugmaker’s takeover could raise privacy concerns among genetics start-up’s 15mn users

    23andMe co-founder and chief executive Anne Wojcicki, the company logo and a genetic testing kit
  • Friday, 28 March, 2025
    Person in the News
    Anne Wojcicki, the floundering 23andMe’s eternal optimist

    Despite the company filing for bankruptcy, the co-founder won’t give up on her dream of using DNA kits to discover new drugs

    Joe Cummings illustration of Anne Wojcicki holding a broken lab flask with the 23andMe logo on it and green fluid leaking from a crack at the bottom
  • Tuesday, 25 March, 2025
    Lex
    How 23andMe’s gene-testing dream turned recessive Premium content

    The biotech group created a revolutionary technology but it never hit on a sustainable business

    The image shows the signage for 23andMe at the company’s headquarters in Sunnyvale, California
  • Monday, 24 March, 2025
    23andMe files for bankruptcy protection as CEO steps down

    Silicon Valley genetics testing company has never made a profit and is seeking a sale

    A 23andMe Ancestry + Traits Service DNA kit
  • Thursday, 21 November, 2024
    US biotech 23andMe hits new lows as Sequoia Capital sells down stake

    Former investors and board members reduce holdings in the once much-hyped genetics-testing group

    A 23andMe DNA kit is displayed, including a saliva collection tube and branded packaging
  • Tuesday, 12 November, 2024
    23andMe warns of ‘substantial doubt’ over its survival without new funding

    Once-hyped genetic start-up issues latest guidance after reporting further quarterly revenue declines

    Anne Wojcicki, chief executive of 23andMe, speaks at a conference in Los Angeles in 2020
  • Wednesday, 16 October, 2024
    News in-depthBiotech
    Founder Anne Wojcicki races to rescue 23andMe

    Once-hyped genetic testing company hit by data breach, plunging share price and board resignations

    Anne Wojcicki, 23andMe logo and kit
  • Wednesday, 16 October, 2024
    Lex
    23andMe succumbs to a dismal genetic destiny Premium content

    Was it nature or nurture? In the unhappy case of a DNA testing company and its sliding share price, the answer is both

    Anne Wojcicki gives a speech at a Los Angeles conference
  • Thursday, 4 April, 2024
    John Thornhill
    Can 23andMe reinvent itself as a drug discovery company?

    It aims to exploit its extraordinary cache of genetic data but changing corporate DNA is hard

    The contents of a 23andMe Ancestry + Traits Service DNA kit laid out
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