Re:Personal Genetics Startup 23andMe Raises $22 Million
by prawn on Tuesday November 09, 2010 @04:06PM
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I'm in Australia and the FedEx drop-off point in my city is at the airport. And I'm lazy and busy enough to not get around to doing things like that.
So after a few months of putting it off, it turned out that I would be in the US (honeymoon) and I decided to just deliver the tubes back by hand for a bit of a laugh. Drove out to their processing facility in LA, wandered around the corridors for 30 minutes completely lost until a woman seemed to know what I was talking about, and handed it over. Told her that I didn't trust FedEx and liked to deliver my international mail by hand.
Couple of weeks later the results were online.
To those considering it: as with those reporting above, it's a little interesting but not all that exciting - I guess that could be a good thing though. For $400, skip it, but if they run another $100 special price it's probably worth it if you're curious.
So after a few months of putting it off, it turned out that I would be in the US (honeymoon) and I decided to just deliver the tubes back by hand for a bit of a laugh. Drove out to their processing facility in LA, wandered around the corridors for 30 minutes completely lost until a woman seemed to know what I was talking about, and handed it over. Told her that I didn't trust FedEx and liked to deliver my international mail by hand.
Couple of weeks later the results were online.
To those considering it: as with those reporting above, it's a little interesting but not all that exciting - I guess that could be a good thing though. For $400, skip it, but if they run another $100 special price it's probably worth it if you're curious.