Gene and Tonic: Competition for 23andMe, Four Tips for Attending AACR 2015, and "Swab Stories"

An Old New DTC Co. on the Move Let’s start with a bit of trivia.  What company has resorted to selling genetic ancestry testing online direct to consumers?  Hint:  the company is located in the San Francisco Bay area, has banked more than 800,000 samples from customers all over the world, and is slowly transforming itself into major biomedical player. That’s right.  You got it.  It’s Ancestry.com.