Anne Wojcicki Quotes
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It's worth knowing more about the complicated environmental and genetic factors that could explain why traumatic brain injuries lead to long-term disabilities in some people and not in others.
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I think there's a point to regulating, because there are snake oil companies.
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Everyone's going to die, and everyone's going to get sick at some point. But I do believe that there are choices you can make in life that will make you as healthy as possible.
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Obesity is awesome from a Wall Street perspective. It's not just one disease - there are all sorts of related diseases to profit from.
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People want to be in charge of health information. They want it available the same way online banking is available.
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I guess I'm just fiercely independent.
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The consumer is really underutilized in health care.
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If we can actually decrease the failure rate from nine out of 10 drugs failing in clinical trials and instead have seven out of 10 instead failing, that is a major victory for drug discovery and for people having better therapy.
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Once a week, I might stay late at work. It's sometimes very efficient to work until 7 P.M. - and then come home to kids who are clean and ready for bed. Those days are good.
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One of the best aspects of health care reform is it starts to emphasize prevention.
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23andme is very independent and committed to focusing on transparency.
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There's not enough competition and innovation in healthcare.
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There's clearly things you can do in your environment to try to prevent disease, and I want to know what those things are.
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It's crazy to me that in this world of electronic medical records Walmart has so much information about how we shop, but no one has that information about our health. Why can't my doctor say, 'Wow, Anne, based on your lifestyle and behavior, you're five years from being diabetic.' But I can go to Target, and they know exactly what I'm going to buy.
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You may not know your complete family history, but the reality is everyone has something, and as you get older, you start to worry about these things more. Health is not sort of like a 6-month project. Health is a lifetime accumulation of behaviors.
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I think that the idea of people wanting to steal your genome remains a little bit in the world of science fiction.
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I usually start my day when my kids wake up.
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All the kids from my nursery school are still in touch.
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I think being on a constraint with money makes you much more creative.
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I think we are definitely suffering from an information overload, but I believe that there is going to be better and better ways of organizing that information and processing it so that it will enhance your daily life.
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Being the first FDA-authorized direct-to-consumer genetic test out there is revolutionary.
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Why should I need a prescription to spit into a vial and get my DNA read? Why can't I get my own blood drawn without a doctor's permission? It's my blood.
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23andMe is pleased to bring public funding to bear on data and research driven by the public - our more than 180,000 customers.
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I think that the idea of people wanting to steal your genome remains a little bit in the world of science fiction. It's a new technology, and it's new science that people are becoming familiar with. It's critical for us to do everything we can to enable the privacy level that people want.