Following a data breach and bankruptcy, genetic testing service 23andMe will soon be in different hands. On Monday, biotechnology company Regeneron announced that it won the top bid in a bankruptcy ...

A 2023 data breach hurt demand for 23andMe's core services Transaction is expected to complete in the third quarter May 19 (Reuters) - (Corrects to say the company filed for bankruptcy in March, not ...

Nearly 2 million people protected their privacy by deleting their DNA from 23andMe after it declared bankruptcy in March. Now it’s back with the same person in charge — and I still don’t trust it. Nor ...

Bankrupt genetic-testing firm 23andMe agreed to sell its data bank, which once contained DNA samples from about 15 million people, to the drug developer Regeneron Pharmaceuticals for $256 million. The ...

The founder of 23andMe Research Institute wants to reach 100 million users, an ambitious goal after the seller of DNA testing kits emerged from bankruptcy as a nonprofit. 23andMe has the DNA of about ...

Angela Giampolo of Giampolo Law Group in Philadelphia. When Blackstone Group acquired a majority stake in Ancestry.com for $4.7 billion in 2020, headlines focused on consumer tech. But behind the ...

23andMe and its co-founder, Anne Wojcicki, aimed to revolutionize healthcare. Earlier this year, WSJ took a look at factors that knocked the company’s valuation down to nearly $0. Photo: Peter DaSilva ...

A bankruptcy judge has approved the sale of the insolvent genetics firm 23andMe to a nonprofit run by one of the company's co-founders. The deal effectively avoids the controversial transfer of DNA ...

A whistleblower claim from a “psychic spy” alleges the CIA scanned consumer DNA databases for “Nordic” extraterrestrial bloodlines. The story has problems.

Your DNA results are in — and they’re 100 percent the property of a pharmaceutical manufacturer. Put simply, the genetic information of millions is now in the hands of a drugmaker seeking to mine it ...

Genetic testing company 23andMe never hit on a sustainable business model and went bankrupt. Now, it's being sold to a non-profit launched by the co-founder, delaying addressing data privacy concerns.