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WGN Radio
"andme" Discussed on WGN Radio
"W here and ray I'm running games. Those are the fascinators Anthony Pascal locker's group. Rose Marie in 1959, the strangest thing about it is one capital. Usually they didn't release that kind of stuff, but they did. They grew up from Brooklyn to Bedford stuyvesant area. Jimmy P on the south side wanted to hear it and now he has. So 888-876-5593 88 88 Raleigh. And I will get to calls, but I wanted to mention here about this case in Fort Worth because it's just amazing. 51 year old woman got a contact because someone had done a 23andMe DNA case and she turned up on the family tree and it turns out make a long story very short that she is the child who was abducted at 21 months old and she was raised within 20 minutes of her birth parents. Now that the saddest part is that you would think if somebody was going to kidnap a child and raise them, that child would be well loved, but apparently that was not the case. She said, I didn't feel loved as a child. It was abusive. I ran away at 15, I went to the streets. I did what I had to do to get by. Well, she survived it and has had a better life now and a marriage and all that. And initially, when she was contacted, she didn't believe it. And it was a brother who said, you know, why not find out, I'll pay for your DNA test. And sure enough, it came back as a match. The Fort Worth police department are thrilled at the way it's turned out, but like the family is very disappointed that all statues of limitations have run out on this. However, if there can be federal charges, the FBI, if something was used in the mail, for instance, if state lines were crossed, then there is no statute of limitations for kidnapping on federal grounds, but so far it's not the most hopeful thing. But very hopeful she's now reunited with her family of birth. And in fact, she's planning to remarry so her birth dad can walk her down the aisle. That's the story there. Good ending. But, man, really just wrenching what she had to go through. 888-876-5593 88 88 Raleigh Brandon is in Chicago. What's up tonight, Brandon? Who were fuck Trump and fuck you? All right, well, we hope that Dan has managed to do that. And to edit that out and we'll just let it go at that. That's part and parcel of what I mean that I don't discuss Trump because people are so biased one way or another on that. So if all you can do is come up with expletives, you're not very creative. All right, so we've got Eduardo in midway. By the way, that's on the stream. So if you're wondering what, in fact, a guy said, oh, you could figure it out on your own. I won't edit it out of the stream. It'll be there. All right, Eduardo and midway. Welcome back to WGN radio. Yeah, probably I thought I'd give you a class since you only got a one hour show tomorrow. Yes. Well, yeah, it'd be interesting if I'm talking to myself for an hour. Right, right. So frontier is cutting the customer service phone. They're going to go through a chat bot. Well, that's not very good. I mean, I'm glad I don't use them, but I mean, for people who have to use it, I mean, they have to reschedule or get a hold of somebody that's not very good. Well, there's something that frontier is just initiated that is real good. It's not customer service, but they're doing an all you can fly annual pass for $799 a year. Oh, yeah, that's right. Yeah, you just reminded me about it. Yeah. And you got to do it by midnight tonight mountain time. So it's an hour and 20 minutes from now. But you can do it for yourself or your children and for each passport for a child under 18, you get a $200 flight voucher. But flights are available 300 days a year, so there's not much blackout. And you won't get mileage credit for it, but the travel will keep your miles from expiring if you had it. Now, now, here's the thing. It renews automatically. This is the part they don't tell you real quickly. The renewal rate is $2000 a year, 1999. So if you're going to do it, make sure at the end of the year, you cancel. Yeah, 'cause I've been on. Dating sites and eHarmony and if you are not careful, guess what? That's right. So you have to really watch that. So what this would be, you've got to buy it by tonight, you won't be able to travel until May, but it'll be good for a year, May 2023, may 2nd until may 1st, 2024. Yeah. So that's an interesting thing. All of these airlines are cash strapped. The models have been broken for so long because originally air travel was pretty much underwritten by the government. Not only directly but also it was what the mail airmail used. And so there was a lot of money made that way. Of course, with deregulation, decades ago and everything else, you're on your own, and it's harder and harder to come up with a model where you actually will make enough money to stay airborne. I heard that they were going to one pilot. Do you hear about that? I did not, I don't know what the rules are on that. It wouldn't be totally surprising since most of the commercial crafts there, they're not doing anything unless. And this is the big unless, unless there's an emergency situation. And so pilots I know always say it's month of boredom and minutes of terror, you know, because obviously we all know about the Sully Sullenberger and all that. When
Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver
"andme" Discussed on Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver
"Hey, it's mini driver. What if you had insights into your genetics that could help you live healthier? How would you use that knowledge to change your life? You can hear me talk with 23andMe CEO Anne wojcicki about how insights from our DNA can affect our health journeys and the new season of the podcast spit from iHeartRadio and 23andMe. This season host baratunde Thurston explores how more and more people are finding out that DNA is more than ancestry. It's a key to understanding your health, your genetic profile can tell you if you are at an increased likelihood for developing a particular condition. Its knowledge that can help you make smarter choices about your health and your lifestyle. And the new season you'll hear me and 22 other podcasters and influencers discuss what genetics taught us about ourselves and how that knowledge can impact the way we live our lives. Listen to my episode out now on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. You can watch the FIFA World Cup 2022 on TV, or you could go to Qatar and watch it live. Frito lay, the official USA snack of the FIFA World Cup 2022 is giving you the chance to win two tickets to the FIFA World Cup 2022 final by joining their past of all challenge. Just grab a specially marked bag of lay's, Cheetos, or Doritos, scan the QR code and enter for a chance to win. But if you want more entries, you gotta pass the ball. The golden world soccer ball, that is. The first people to add their picture to the golden ball will receive a one of a kind collectible NFT commemorating the experience. And as you pass the ball to fellow soccer fans, you get more entries. Plus, custom swag and awesome prizes. Scan the QR code on specially marked bags of lay's, Cheetos, or Doritos, or visit Frito lay score dot com to pass the ball now. 18 plus grand prize entry deadline 1110 22 entries received after 1110 22 are only eligible for a secondary crisis seals
Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver
"andme" Discussed on Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver
"So uncomplicated for a second. You're like, oh, all that matters right now is just like the way the water feels and catching this wave or whatever, you know, it's like I don't sadly go to those moments often enough or I don't make space for them because there's just so much day to day my friend calls them techno realities, which are just these little things that you get lost in that sometimes cause you to forget what's important and what you love about your life. It's so weird because I was just having this conversation with my boyfriend the other day. I was like, what is this chasm between? The self awareness of things that will make our lives better and the actual doing of them. Yeah. You know how that feels. I know how that feels. And yet actually going and seeking it out is almost like we slump into that techno reality or we slump into it going, wow, this is just life. This is just what it is. I've got to sit in front of my computer for 5 hours and answer emails or do this thing. I think we've got to fight harder to carve out that other space because I know we know that's where the creativity and the freedom comes from. Well, and the people that I think who display that the most are like in sort of business terms are always deemed as flaky or just like non responsive, but they're actually the most tapped in. And that's not the case for every flaky person quote unquote, but those creatives that don't answer emails or don't. It's like, I know that there's somewhere creating or they're on a walk or they're doing the things that matter and it's like, who cares about the rest? I know emails matter. Like if I didn't answer my email, this wouldn't have happened today. So that's important to me. But also, it's just like, I think you're right, instinctively, we know where to return to, but we don't. It's always like last resort or something. Yeah, I think, again, it is just like insisting on drawing the lines of engagement with life. You know, I've gone, okay, well, it's going to be this for this amount of time. But I'm just talking from my I suppose from my own perspective, which is one gets lazy and then you don't realize that you've sort of been bludgeoned by all of the social contracts and all of the stuff. But it doesn't really take much. That's what's great. I can just walk up to the park from where I live in London, and that's where my mother used to say, that's where the city breathes. And it's true. Like you go there and these ancient trees and it's pretty wonderful. But you have to go do it, right? You have to do it. No one is going to tell you that you need that break except for yourself. I've learned that a lot where it's like, you know, if it weren't for me at times, putting my foot down, I don't think anyone would tell me, hey, you should stop. Or you should take a break. There's a machine that's running. And no one really wants to shut it down. Yeah. Particularly if you're generating income for them. I've also found that it's like, you know, I was like, yeah, no, you're right. I got to do that too. Yeah, I mean, it's also attached to morals too, where I'm like, oh my God, all these people are relying on me. I would do anyone wrong that way. And then it's like, there is a certain point of honesty that you reach where you're like, but the way that I feel now isn't helping anyone really, you know, like I have to have to succumb to something. In your life, can you tell me about something that has grown out of a personal disaster? This is another one of those questions that I thought about for a couple days. I did my research and I went and listened to this podcast beforehand and that one got me because I thought I'm 25 at the moment and there's the potential that some of my worst personal disasters are ahead of me. Oh, you're so not wrong. Which is like dark, that's great. It's really true. You can confirm you're coming at me from 25 years literally at 25 years old of the year. Oh my God, no, it's going to be great. It's going to be great because shit's going to grow out of it. Unfortunately, this is the gift that keeps on giving. Stop having personal disasters. You start keeping a tally. It's a relief to me in a certain way though, because the more that I've talked to people who are older than me or have just lived more life, the idea of like, oh, it just kind of stays hard. It makes me feel like there's nothing more that I should be doing to make it easier. It's like, oh, okay, good. This isn't on me. This is just life coming at me. But I would say the most recent thing that I can name, it was the experience of making the album that just came out on September 9th. It was so deeply difficult for me. I think because I just felt so disconnected from myself and from the process I just was like paralyzed. I think from pressure. And again, so much of it, I think, was I was responsible for so much of the pressure was I was putting on myself unduly. But from my label and from management too, it was just like this has to be really remarkable work. Otherwise, who knows in this fragile place that the industry was in and it's like the one time that I felt like everybody who was on the inside couldn't speak for how it would look or what it would be, all they could say was it just has to be amazing. And again, that's not me faulting anyone. I was also making this writing this in 2020. So it was already a disaster. Yeah, I think that was the scariest thing to me. I felt like I was like a little foosball on a foos table that like anything that anyone said could have just shot me in the other direction. So I felt like my compass was gone. So the whole time, to me, that felt like a disaster and trying to make music from that place. I rerecorded songs so many times because it just didn't feel right. I just felt like I was reaching all that to say as that was kind of happening. My grandma died who I was really close to. And you know, grief tends to do that thing, which I learned because that was the first person who I was ever close to that I lost. Grief says this thing that gives you this hyper clarity. Even if it's just for a short time where you're like, oh, literally only these two things matter. That's all I can give importance to. And for me, it was like family and love. And loving people well. And that was it. And music being out of the equation there just was a relief for a minute, 'cause I was like, I've been putting so much pressure on this and on myself and it's turned into this thing that I'm so afraid to look at in the eye. And what was so beautiful about that is there was a song that I wrote about her. It's called life according to Rachel that came out of that and it felt like that sort of purity of thought love and family sort of came through the music and what was so cool about it is I released it thinking this is such a specific song about my grandmother and losing her like I think it's just gonna be for me. And so many people have been able to attach their story and their life through that song, which has just been like so overwhelming and mind-blowing to me. And again, it's like one of those things that I think it was really just because there was like no ego around a song like that. There was no room to try and be impressive in the music. It was just like confessional. It talks about the guilt that you feel when you lose someone that you didn't do enough or all those things that you deal with. So yeah, I think and obviously the record is finished. And I'm proud of it, but that was one of those moments where I was like, how do I avoid going through that again? In my life, even though I see such good that came out of it. But you know, sometimes you come across these situations where you're like, there is literally nowhere around this, but through. And so you just kind of strap in and hope for the best. That's so amazing. And I'm so glad that I'm not glad you lost your grandmother, but to experience the clarity and the clarifying nature of grief is it's an extraordinary privilege and it is a really beautiful strange moment in a person's life. And to be able to be creative, to be able to use that and harness that, because that really, to me, is what that is. It's harnessing that energy and turning it into something else. But I'll tell you something that my dad said to me when I was heartbroken over this guy that I loved so much and really I mean I'm actually must have been your age and I thought that I was going to marry him and I loved him and he just broken up with me and I'd set up all night and I didn't smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee and I was sitting outside our House and my dad was going through this phase of I think I've told this story before but I'm going to tell that again because it's pertinent. And my dad went through this phase where he would go out jogging in the morning and it lasted for like three weeks, but it was during this time. He came out with his towel around his neck and he was sort of jogging and he had his towel headband on. Can he was like, he was like, oh, have you been up all night? And I was like, yeah, I'm so unhappy. I'm so sad. Everyday all day, just crying and smoking and drinking coffee. And he was like, over a chap, is it? And I was like, yes, the love of my life. And my dad was like, do you want me to tell you something that you're not going to want to hear? I was like, well, I mean, not really, but okay. And he was like, you're going to feel this way about someone else. I will say to you, Madison. You are going to feel this way about other records. However, you will also feel that it's easy and beautiful and simple in the way that maybe you love your husband. You have that relationship. Yeah. It's all of it, and it will be all of it if we're lucky, hundreds of times over. But I understand the brutality of being in that moment where it's just so painful. And the process has just been really, really difficult. And even though you're proud of the thing that comes out at the end, it's gnarly. And they'll be that experience again. I'm sure. I hope you're going to write so many more records and I'm sure have it for maybe other different reasons. You know, you'll have kids running around and you won't be able to fucking focus and it'll be like, I'm losing my mind and I've got to finish this record. Yeah, yeah. Totally, this goes back again to what we said at the beginning. It's like, you know, no sing when it's hard and taking steps to kind of alleviate that and sometimes you can't and you just have to go through it being hard. Someone said to me, during that time and a similar thing that your dad said, but she kind of was like, you know, the beauty of this is she was just gonna get harder. And I was like, I don't see beauty in that. But she was saying the reality is and where you can find beauty also is that you're going to lose more people that you love. This is the beginning, but it's also the beginning of more clarity and love in your life. And that can feel morbid, like a morbid idea, but grief is such a human thing. It's such a human idea. And it's things that we don't love to talk about. But I find it so important whether that be grieving the loss of a relationship or like actually losing someone, they all have a place, and it's sadly inevitable. I guess sometimes I'm like, there's no romantic way to really view this. It's just sad. That's it. Yeah. But that's also okay. Yeah, it's also okay, exactly. Sometimes it is, it is just sad. And it is just hard. And that's okay. And we get through it. You get back to the glacier and the inner tube. Yes. Hey, it's mini driver. What if you had insights into your genetics that could help you live healthier? How would you use that knowledge to change your life? You can hear me talk with 23andMe CEO Anne wojcicki about how insights from our DNA can affect our health journeys and the new season of the podcast spit from iHeartRadio and 23andMe. This season host baratunde Thurston explores how more and more people are finding out that DNA is more than ancestry. It's a key to understanding your health, your genetic profile can tell you if you are at an increased likelihood for developing a particular condition. Its knowledge that can help you make smarter choices about your health and your lifestyle and the new season you'll hear me and 22 other podcasters and influencers discuss what genetics taught us about ourselves and how that knowledge can impact the way we live our lives. Listen to my episode out now on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. When the world gets in the way of your music, try the new Bose quiet comfort earbuds too. Next gen earbuds uniquely tuned to the shape of your ears. They use exclusive Bose technology that personalizes the audio performance to fit you. Delivering the world's best noise cancellation and powerfully immersive sound. So you can hear and feel every detail of the music you love. Bose quiet comfort earbuds two. Sound shape to you. To
Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver
"andme" Discussed on Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver
"Talks about that enough. The nurse that was like holding my leg as she was like, it's like you're taking a big poop. She kept saying that as I was pushing. Did you sky got so scared that that was what was going to happen? I was like, I just don't want to poo on the doctor. I don't want to do that whole thing. I accepted that it was going to happen because everybody told me like, you know what? It's going to happen. And I don't know if it happened, obviously, because I had an epidural, and they're not going to tell you that. The doctor's not going to be like, by the way, you should right in front of me. Yeah, it's like, I also shot a baby, man. Like, come on, I'm not shabby. That's not terrible, but I pushed out a baby. Definitely my happiest moment. Because in the aftermath of, oh my God, I got it out. Mixed in with, oh, I have my dear little baby. Yeah, who you've been waiting to meet for like 9 months and she was so like, not that babies can see when they're first born, but she was so in wonder of the world and taking it in and it was just the most beautiful thing to see and to hold her against your skin and like to see that face, this person you've been carrying inside you. I mean, it's truly the happiest ever. It is, right? They told me I was having a girl. The doctor had told me the wrong thing. I was a surprise. I wanted love to be the first word that she heard when she came out. So as I was having the baby and pushing, I was like. Can I push the baby in? And it's a boy and my mother goes, oh my goodness, it's a boy. And I went, what the fuck? That's amazing. So that was the first thing to miss on her. But it is. It's remarkable that they are this is certainly these little aliens. But isn't that the perfect encapsulation of life sometimes is love and what the fuck? I mean, together a 100%. And also happiness, like I was just talking to my friend fern today. We are so obsessed with the idea that happiness is not an adjunct to all the other shit. It's the bit that saves us, but it's often the kind of corridor through all the stuff that doesn't work out. Yeah. The idea of it being untainted that love being untainted by what the fuck is ridiculous. Their part and parcel. They don't exist without each other. And it probably symbiotic and wouldn't exist without the other one. Yeah, it's like life doesn't exist without dark, dark doesn't exist black lights. You got to find gratitude for both things. A 100%. How does that happen though? I feel like in this day and age, they wouldn't see on the ultrasound. Like, oh no, actually we were wrong. This isn't like, that's crazy. Well, it turns out, with all the love in the world and I'm not even going to name check him because I love him. And he still delivering babies. But he was like, the gaffe doctor of all time. He told more people like the gender when they didn't want to know the thing with the thing that was a whole lot of mister magoo ism around my beautiful o-b-gyn. So he told me I was having a girl and then I burst into tears because I don't want to know. Oh, he didn't. And so then he wrote on my chart, never mentioned the gender again, so then at all the other ultrasounds, they could see, but he completely forgot that he'd said it was a gun. They could see that it was a boy, and nobody said anything ever again, until I had the baby. That makes sense. Hey, it's mini driver. What if you had insights into your genetics that could help you live healthier? How would you use that knowledge to change your life? You can hear me talk with 23andMe CEO Anne wojcicki about how insights from our DNA can affect our health journeys and the new season of the podcast spit from iHeartRadio and 23andMe. This season host baratunde Thurston explores how more and more people are finding out that DNA is more than ancestry. It's a key to understanding your health, your genetic profile can tell you if you are at an increased likelihood for developing a particular condition. Its knowledge that can help you make smarter choices about your health and your lifestyle and the new season you'll hear me and 22 other podcasters and influencers discuss what genetics taught us about ourselves and how that knowledge can impact the way we live our lives. Listen to my episode out now on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. The CVS Health commitment to women is here. We know that women's physical, mental and sexual health matters. That's why we're offering new women's health services available 7 days a week. Here, period health matters. 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There's something about a fitted sheet. It feels personal and it also feels just like bad design. And that nobody thought it through and that there were all kinds of ramifications that pissed me off. Yeah. That's one that's a practical one. You know, there's an ex lover of mine who I had a very long love that they are off and on for over a decade. I write about him in my book and the final time we broke up 'cause he broke up that many times. You know, he said he didn't want to commit because he was trying to protect himself from being hurt. And I wonder if that worked out for him. If he suffered over it, because I mostly have a feeling that you can't ever protect yourself from pain without blocking yourself from love. So I have a feeling that they still does suffer over it. So the pain protection plan doesn't work. So if it didn't work, then why not just choose love if pain
Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver
"andme" Discussed on Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver
"Hey, it's mini driver. What if you had insights into your genetics that could help you live healthier? How would you use that knowledge to change your life? You can hear me talk with 23andMe CEO Anne wojcicki about how insights from our DNA can affect our health journeys and the new season of the podcast spit from iHeartRadio and 23andMe. This season host baratunde Thurston explores how DNA isn't just about ancestry. It's a key to understanding your health when the new season you'll hear me and 22 other podcasters and influencers discuss what genetics taught us about ourselves and how that knowledge can impact the way we live our lives. Listen to my episode out now on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. The economy is crazy right now. All time high inflation very stock market rising home prices and interest rates make your money go further and work harder with a certified financial planner professional from facet wealth, certified financial planner professionals, and fiduciaries. They're legally bound to do what's in your best interest. Facet has a simple flat fee, no hidden charges. There are no commissions. Try facet wealth dot com, TRY, FACT wealth dot com. That's a wealth is an SEC registered investment adviser. This is not an offer to buy your cell security, nor is it investment legal or tax advice. These days, our health feels front and center, with many of us monitoring our symptoms today in hopes of a healthy tomorrow. But what about tomorrow's tomorrow? Forward is focusing on your long-term health by building the world's first long-term doctor. That means smarter preventive care, with biometric monitoring, real-time lab results, and 24/7 access to care and a smarter way to do it. One flat B with no copays. Visit go forward dot com slash iHeart today to join for just $99 a month. Go forward dot com slash iHeart. There's something about a fitted sheet. It feels personal and it also feels just like bad design and that nobody thought it through and that there were all kinds of ramifications that pissed me off. I've looked up on the Internet how to do it and I get there's a way, but it's not really exactly how I would want it to be. It's not neat. Hello, I'm Minnie Driver. Welcome to the mini questions season two. I've always loved priests, questionnaire. It was originally a 19th century parlor game where players would ask each other 35 questions aimed at revealing the other players true nature. It's just the scientific method really in asking different people the same set of questions. You can make observations about which truths appear to be universal. I love this discipline. And it made me wonder, what if these questions were just the jumping off point? What greater depths would be revealed if I asked these questions as conversation starters with thought leaders and trailblazers across all these different disciplines. So I adapted Proust questionnaire and I wrote my own 7 questions that I personally think are pertinent to a person's story. They are. When and where were you happiest? What is the quality you like least about yourself? What relationship real or fictionalised defines love for you? What question would you most like answered? What person place or experience has shaped you the most? What would be your last meal? And can you tell me something in your life that's grown out of a personal disaster? And I've gathered a group of really remarkable people, ones that I am honored and humbled to have had the chance to engage with. You may not hear their answers to all 7 of these questions. We've whittled it down to which questions felt closest to their experience or the most surprising
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"andme" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"As to access to care providers. So the company has just continued to execute, but obviously market conditions are challenging. So we're very mindful of the fact that market conditions have changed. And the future is more uncertain. So we take all that into consideration now. And we want to talk to you more about what you do because I feel like we just came back from a conference. It was all about the financial world. I was involved in a panel that specifically about what the future of money is reimagining it. And I think when it comes to things like financial services and certainly healthcare, it does feel like we're on the cusp of doing things so different, especially when it comes to treatment. Modalities, having said that, I just want to go back to the market environment because we're asking all of our leaders this. I mean, when you do have a stock that is down more than 60%, I mean, what kind of pressure does that put on you and your team who are working on things that are going to take some time? Yeah, you know, I was investing back in when the market crashed back in 2000 2001. And it took a long time to recover. And I think that there's the way we approach this is really about making sure that we're doing things that are going to see value in the near term. And probably have to minimize some of the projects that are going to focus on some of the longer term initiatives, but really focus on priorities. And also making sure that you're using cash. And the widest way. So all kinds of things that we start to reevaluate. But it's really about making sure that we have a very strong cash balance sheet right now and making sure that we extend that runway as long as possible. And making sure that all the programs that we're focused on are really essential. And I want to get to the research that you recently found at 23andMe. Some really interesting stuff when it comes to long COVID. And I think, you know, we're at a point in their pandemic where careful and I travel at some points. I felt like I was the only one wearing a mask on some of those flights in the airport and even at this conference that we were at. But long code. I did have my mask on back to you. You did. I did. Too, yeah. But we were. It was it. That was it. Yeah. But I do want to know, Anne, what you found when it comes to long COVID because that's something that I think about a lot. In one of the reasons why I don't want to get COVID. Yeah, a 100%. So there's a couple things that are really interesting for me about this. So first and foremost, you know, the way part of what we conceptualize when we started 23andMe and it goes back to some of your earlier questions was really a whole new way of doing research. Like, how is it that you can have millions and millions of people engaged on these single platform with phenotypic data with their genetic information and be able to go back to them very quickly easily ask more questions and make insights. And so this long COVID research that we've done is really a good example of how the 23 model works that we could put out a survey to our customers collect a lot of information and make really interesting and meaningful findings. So one of the things a couple things here that are interesting and again being female, it's obviously top of my mind, over 78% of those diagnosed with long COVID were women. It's clearly disproportionately impacting women. People with depression diagnosed depression and anxiety are more than twice as likely to have it. So twice increasing their risk. Half of those people are having persistent symptoms for over 6 months. And about 10% are having it for over a year. So all this data comes from about a 100,000 customers who reported that they had COVID over 26,000 that said that they had long COVID. So we have a lot of data here and it's definitely concerning that it's, again, impacts so many women, anxiety, being a risk factor is obviously quite interesting to follow up further on. And the fact that it's super system. So similar to you and what you just said, I was recently at legoland and nobody was wearing a mask. Let me and I am sticking to my mask. I wear this duck mask around Anne and all our listeners and this guy at the airport was like, what is that mask? And I had to explain this. This thing's actually pretty comfortable. It's a 9 95. I love it. I love it. No, I think it just, it's just clear that there's, you know, there's clear long-term impacts here and so understanding it. There's a lot more to be followed up on with respect to long COVID. That was Anne wojcicki the cofounder and CEO of 23andMe. You're listening to Bloomberg businessweek, coming up next, financial services are set to enter a new era. Will head to the lone star state to discuss the next big FinTech breakthrough at the BNY Mellon Pershing insight 2022 conference. BNY Mellon chief information officer rom naga pond joins us on the other side. This is Bloomberg. Bet MGM is pitching
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"With the busy summer travel season already upon us. And speaking of driving, head on this broadcast, we'll hear from the global vice president of Cadillac on the brand's move away from gas powered vehicles. And the CEO of contour brands tells us how his company has largely skirted the supply chain troubles, touching nearly every sector. Plus, 23andMe CEO and wojcicki stops by to discuss her company's key research on long COVID and a rough stretch for its share price. All of that to come, we begin with this week's cover story and another struggling area of the market. Cryptocurrency, specifically, the regulatory crackdown of facing the industry's richest man. Jiang Peng zhao. Business we call him this max trafficking in Bloomberg news markets reporter, justina Lee co wrote the piece, they joined me and Bloomberg news senior markets reporter, Katie greifeld, with more. Cheesy is the billionaire cofounder of the world's biggest crypto exchange. I think for a lot of people who haven't been paying attention to crypto, might not really understand exactly how big finances. But you know, in 24 hours, I think they usually say they process $76 billion of transactions. And if you think about coinbase as the exchange the most Americans are most familiar with, I mean, finance is like, I think the last time I looked about 40 times bigger than that and that's because they have a lot of volumes in crypto derivatives. And that's because they're everywhere and they're really the retail traders favorite crypto exchange. And max, you went to Dubai, you met the man. What was he like in person? Because he is sort of this mysterious but very prolific figure. Well, yeah, as just saying, binance itself is popular and CZ has this kind of cult following. The crypto heads really like the company they really like him. I mean, in person he's very unassuming, right? He doesn't come off as a kind of what you would think of as a normal crypto billionaire. He drives a normal seeming car or is driven. I probably should say in a normal car. And you know, he's a slender soft spoken and so on. But of course, you know, this is all part of a pitch and what Justine and I wrote about it in his stories that binance basically after years of really kind of behaving very aggressively in terms of regulation in terms of its approach to the law is very much trying to strike a new note, which is a note of we are as CZ told me in Dubai. We're the stable guys, where the adults in the room. And to people who follow this industry, I mean, that is a bold claim to say the least. Staples a bit of a dirty word in crypto right now. Yeah, and as justina could speak to, I mean, this is not a company known for a lot of stability. Okay, justina, come on back in here. I'm not going to say the word because it's not allowed on radio. But I'll just say S points, okay? S coins. People who know crypto know what I'm talking about here. What is binance's relationship with these so called S coins? And explain what they are. Yeah, I mean, these S coins or you can call them altcoins are basically these smaller cryptocurrencies that got really big in the IPO boom of 2017. And the relationship with finance is that one thing they realized in 2017 was that people didn't just want to trade Bitcoin and Ethereum. They wanted to trade, you know, like hundreds of tokens, you know, that different people are pumping on the Internet. And that was really how they first got big back then. And so binance is interesting because it's kind of jurisdiction free max CZ is kind of jurisdiction free as well. How is that so? How is he able to do that? Well, yeah, so the company was founded in China, but pretty quickly after they were founded, they basically went on the move. And what you have is this website binance dot com where most of the trading volume is that doesn't really have a home and there isn't a clear country. There isn't a clear jurisdiction. And that is basically both a feature and a bug. It's a bug because it's a regulatory vulnerability. You now have regulators all over the world, and especially in the United States, scrutinizing this company very closely, but it's a feature in that it basically allowed them to offer all of these unlicensed financial products in enormous volumes. You know, with very few repercussions. And so, you know, and that's why this company and a lot of ways embodies the crypto industry itself because of course crypto is this borderless nation less idea, right? And then we have this borderless nation less company and what we're seeing now is the potential. For those ideas to maybe run into some of those old institutions that they were trying to displace. Justina, as I mentioned, a lot of stuff you and max uncovered knew in this and one part of that that I want to get to is the ownership structure of different binance arms throughout the world. What is binance U.S.? How is it related to binance? And what did you learn about this intricate web of different firms throughout the world? Right. So Biden's U.S. started in 2019 because U.S. regulators wouldn't really have binance in the country and so binance was like, you know, we'll start this brand new entity that's going to be independent and it's going to be more compliant. And that's the way they've been operating, which is that they have this ambiguous entity by hand dot com. But in some local jurisdictions, they might open a local company that might engage with regulators. And the question kind of behind all of this is who actually owns this cash cow. We don't know the parent company behind finance dot com. But if you look at the local entities and a very important company called finance
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"That is a Bloomberg business flash All right Charlie thank you so much Carol master Tim we are live in our Bloomberg interactive broker studio streaming on YouTube So her company you might recall a business week cover story back in November about how 23andMe wants to use its customers genetic data to beat cancer It was a fascinating story when we think about innovation disruption when it comes to treatment especially when it comes to cancer We've got with us Anne wojcicki the cofounder and CEO of 23andMe and joins us this afternoon via Zoom from Los gatos California And how are you I'm good How are you We're doing well thanks It's really good to have you with us I want to get into everything that you're understanding when it comes to COVID and long COVID via 23andMe But first I want to just get you to get your thoughts on what we're seeing with the macro environment with the volatility in the stock market We should note year to date shares of 23andMe down about 62% give us your take Oh well that's a big question I mean look the markets are definitely complicated right now And I think that as coming from the Wall Street world and now being the CEO of a public traded company it is it's interesting that 23 May continues to execute I'm incredibly proud of the team We continue to move programs through the pipeline make drug discovery continue to engage our customers on genomic medicine and where we can go with that We recently acquired a company called lemonade So it gives us the ability to offer care to our customers both through pharmacy as well as to access to care providers So the company has just continued to execute but obviously market conditions are challenging So we're very mindful of the fact that market conditions have changed And the future is more uncertain So we take all that into consideration now And we want to talk to you more about what you do because I feel like we just came back from a conference It was all about the financial world I was involved in a panel that specifically about what the future of money is reimagining it And I think when it comes to things like financial services and certainly healthcare it does feel like we're on the cusp of doing things so different especially when it comes to treatment Modalities having said that I just want to go back to the market environment because we're asking all of our leaders this I mean when you do have a stock that is down more than 60% I mean what kind of pressure does that put on you and your team who are working on things that are going to take some time Yeah you know I was investing back in when the market crashed back in 2000 2001 and it took a long time to recover And I think that there's the way we approach this is really about making sure that we're doing things that are going to see value in the near term and probably have to minimize some of the projects that are going to focus on some of the longer term initiatives but really focus on priorities and also making sure that you're using cash and the wisest way So all kinds of things that we start to reevaluate But it's really about making sure that we have a very strong balance sheet right now and making sure that we extend that runway as long as possible And making sure that all the programs that we're focused on are really essential And I want to get to the research that you recently found at 23 and mason really interesting stuff when it comes to long COVID And I think we're at the point in the pandemic where careful and I traveling yesterday at some points I felt like I was the only one wearing a mask on some of those flights in the airport and even at this conference that we were at But long COVID I did have my mask on back to you You did I did Heralded too yeah But we were It was it That was it Yeah We were in Texas to be fair But I do want to know and what you found when it comes to long COVID because that's something that I think about a lot In one of the reasons why I don't want to get COVID Yeah a 100% So there's a couple of things that are really interesting for me about this So first and foremost the way part of what we conceptualize when we started 23andMe and it goes back to some of your earlier questions was really a whole new way of doing research Like how is it that you can have millions and millions of people engaged on these single platform with phenotypic data with their genetic information and be able to go back to them very quickly easily ask more questions and make insights And so this long COVID research that we've done is really a good example of how the 23 model works that we could put out a survey to our customers collect a lot of information and make really interesting and meaningful findings So one of the things a couple things here that are interesting and again being female it's obviously top of my mind Over 78% of those diagnosed with long COVID were women It's clearly disproportionately impacting women People with depression diagnosed depression and anxiety are more than twice as likely to have it So twice twice increasing their risk Half of those people are having persistent symptoms for over 6 months And about 10% are having it for over a year So all this data comes from about a 100,000 customers who reported that they had COVID over 26,000 that said that they had long COVID So we have a lot of data here and it's definitely concerning that it's again impacts so many women anxiety being a risk factor is obviously quite interesting to follow up further on And the fact that it's so persistent So similar to you and what you just said I was recently at legoland and nobody was wearing a mask but me and I am sticking to my mask One of my whole airport yesterday Carol I wear this duck mask around Anne and all our listeners and this guy at the airport was like what is that mask And I had to explain that This thing's actually pretty comfortable It's a 9 95 Go ahead Dan I love it I love it No I think it just it's just clear that there's you know there's this clear long-term impacts here and so understanding it There's a lot more to be followed up on with respect to long COVID We kept saying that milk and we were at the milk and institute in April Nobody had masks on And the head of Mayo Clinic comes up and who's an empty Who's an MD and he was the only one having a mask and he kept it on to the interview took it off for the interview and put it right back on And he's like why wouldn't I wear a mask We're at this point So much more to talk Please come back soon We love to hear about the work you're doing because I think it's so relevant to where we are going in the world And we're just kidding She's cofounder chief executive officer 23andMe via Zoom from Los gatos California I did have my mask on You did I do like.
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"Chain thing is no joke We're going to check in with some of these on the front lines Jennifer but sigli CEO and founder of enteros We're going to talk about supply chain Plus this whole Twitter thing is Elon buying it is he not going to get a couple professionals here on board to give us some color there But first he's got a great Jared Get a Bloomberg business flash great Stocks are bouncing back This has been some weak people who are watching the markets have sore necks like me from going back and forth and up and down There was a little help of course from fed chair Jerome Powell's reassurance that those anticipated or suspected bigger rate hikes would be off the table for now even after the hot inflation readings of the past few days Let's look at these markets the S&P 500 is now up 2.3% up 90 It has up one and a half percent up 497 and the NASDAQ's up 3.3% up 380 out of ten years down 23 30 seconds the yield of 2.93% West Texas intermediate crude is 3.3% at one O 9 61 a barrel Comics gold is down 6 tenths of a percent in 1814 20 announced The valorian won 29 42 the Euro a dollar three 84 in the British pound the dollar 22 ten If you don't like putting more than two or $3 per share into a stock 23andMe holdings having a good day their class a shares rose 11% today they're at two 82 that's up Let's see about 11% So isn't that the isn't that the company that if you use their product your third cousin can be found for a heinous crime 40 years ago That is a Bloomberg business flash Bloomberg markets continues now Paul Sweeney and Matt Miller.
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"Welcome back to Bloomberg technology I'm Emily Chang in San Francisco Well the pandemic continues to change how we view certain businesses in the world of healthcare definitely one of them 23andMe the genetic testing company is diving into telemedicine to help customers better understand their genetic reports Joining me now is the CEO and cofounder of 23andMe and always good to have you here on the show So you're taking here first steps towards giving 23andMe customers access to telehealth to help them understand what all of this data you're giving back to them actually means How exactly does it work Well I think one of the most interesting things I've learned over the last 16 years is that everyone sees a world where you're going to get your genetic information and it's going to be part of your everyday primary care experience But the reality is most physicians are not trained it's not accessible It's not part of the medical system And we've learned we have over 12 million customers We've learned over time that our customers are getting this information and they take it to their primary care physicians and they largely don't know what to do with that information And so there's this opportunity for 23andMe to really solve that problem And actually become that consult to other primary care physicians or other specialists by really providing and delivering genomic medicine and how our customers and how everyone else out there can learn about their DNA and say I'm going to take proactive preventative steps and have whether that changes some of the guidelines like getting a colonoscopy or whether or not that's going to actually influence how they're wearing sunglasses or how they are eating and exercising How significant will telehealth be to 23 and knees future business Like do you see this being a significant driver of the vision and revenue I think that preventative care is absolutely something people do every day Your health is a sum of what your actions are every single day And I think that people get genetic information You get any kind of health information and you have to spread it out throughout your life You have to continuously implement it And so what I find and part of the 23 me plus product that we launched about roughly over a year ago was about additional content And we've always said the next step for us is actually saying there's additional services that are part of that Is that going to be telemedicine Is it going to be the ability to chat with a physician Is it going to be access to pharmacy And integration with your genetic data with pharmacy or is it potentially going to be access to blood tests that are relevant because of your genetic information So I think that this infrastructure is a really core part of the future experience where customers are going to have 23andMe part of their entire lifetime of healthcare Now you have released some eye opening research about COVID-19 You found that the loss of the sense of taste and smell was tied to genes that if you had typo blood for example you were less likely to test positive Are you still looking into COVID-19 Are we going to see 23 me make more COVID related discoveries We are and it's something I have been pushing more and more and just personally I hear all kinds of stories on long COVID So a lot of our emphasis right now has been on long COVID We have over one and a half million people who have taken our COVID survey over 16,000 of them have had were hospitalized and had serious cases Large numbers of people who have long COVID So we're actively continuing to look at that data and we'll continue to publish on it It's something that's obviously it's very top of mind And I think understanding the genetics behind why we all have such variable responses is going to be really important for us in managing it going forward What's the progress on your drug discovery business and the likelihood that 23andMe will help us get closer to a cure for cancer Well I think people don't always realize drug discovery is incredibly hard Most programs fail There's over 90% failure in drug discovery And so one of the only things that has ever been shown to increase the likelihood of success is starting with a genetic a human genetic foundation So if you have a human genetic foundation to your drug discovery program you're more than twice as likely to be successful at actually getting onto the market So what's so unusual about 23andMe is that we have this incredible community of dataset of information where we can make all kinds of discoveries on all different disease areas And what the Therapeutics team is they go through all of this data They sort of whittle it down into where are we most likely to be successful Where is there an unmet need And then we're actually working on that with a partnership with GSK on getting these programs actually out to everybody So is the hope that 23andMe is going to be a big pharma company someday What's a fair comparison I love this Emily One of the biggest challenges people have a hard time putting us in a box because we're not telemedicine We're not just a diagnostics and we're not just a pharma We have this comprehensive holistic system where we say 23andMe is about engaging individuals in their health And at the same time those individuals always have the ability to opt into research over 80% of our customers opt into research And with that we're making discoveries And those discoveries either can go back to our customers and that's where lemonade and the acquisition of our of our platform and the ability to engage customers they will benefit in that way or some of those insights are going to go to our therapeutic side and we are going to continue to make discoveries that hopefully one day are going to go back to our customers And we're going to have potentially a new way of approaching how we get those Therapeutics out to our customers Now of course 23andMe recently went public via back and I'm curious what the transition from being a private company to be a public company has been like for you We've seen tech stocks in general And equities in general really take a leg down in this macro environment and 23andMe has as well What's your reaction to that And what's been your experience dealing with public market investors I'm really happy that we went through the process We are public now We have the ability to do more acquisitions the ability to actually access markets All of this was the right time in the right place for us to go public And what I've been focused on now is really just the long-term mission of the company The long-term vision of this company is that every single person in the world is going to have genetics that's part of their care It's almost one of those things that every researcher every healthcare professional talks about It's inevitable and it's obvious Genetics is going to become a critical part of healthcare in the future And so 23andMe is absolutely that leading platform that is going to drive that and make that happen So I have not been focused on the day to day of the stock market markets are obviously quite dynamic right now But what I'm focused on is that long-term future where every single person is going to have genetics as a critical part of their care And what you have 23andMe thank you as always Thank you Thank you I'm like good to see you Good to see you too All right coming up coinbase and kraken beware There is a new peer to peer crypto exchange in town We'll tell you who next this is Bloomberg.
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"And now I just said that and so now they're going to be able to tie it to me. Oh my God, I'm such an idiot. So yeah, so I wanted to actually know what my DNA is, but I didn't trust 23andMe because who found in 23andMe, right? It was Sergey Brin, the CEO of one of the cofounders of Google, his wife, and I was like, wait a second. The CEO, the founder of 23andMe is the Google's wife. Do you think I want them to know my data? It's almost like it's almost like when someone, in my opinion, when someone knows your genetic code, it's almost like Superman and kryptonite. Like, they could know exactly what's going to get you, right? And so it's like, that's a little tinfoil. It kind of thing. So what are your thoughts on some of that jarboli garbage that I dispute? No, I think you're right. I mean, we're less in the kind of demonizing the web two player in this regard, because as I said before, it's only 22 years old. People started somewhere. And we get wiser by doing and getting to know the market better and all these interactions of as to what happens with your data. I think many, many tools, you know, whether this is Facebook or the Instagram or kind of anything that requires interaction from you as an individual with a kind of an open database, if you will, there is always a liability that there's leakage of your data, right? Whether this is consciously done, whether this is done intentionally or whether this is done on purpose kind of accidentally. That remains to be seen. So I'd say that the founders of 23 me there, of course, don't know them personally. But I think it's clever what they've done. But it's a little bit archaic. If you look at.
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"On the road and in life we'll explain more in a bit, but first, let's get into the episode. One of my favorite things to do is to see people on Twitter who don't like us. And then I contact them. What's interesting is the debate and engaging with people who not necessarily love you, but engaging with the people who don't. I'm Carly zakin, and I'm Danielle weisberg. Welcome to 9 to 5 ish with the skin. We've run into so many questions over the years and had so many moments where we needed advice and we got it from women who'd been there. And that's what we're bringing you with this show. Each week we're helping you get what you want out of your career by talking to the smartest leaders we know. Because we know your work life is a lot more than 9 to 5. All right, let's get into it. Today, our guest is Anne wojcicki, Anne is the founder of 23andMe, a game changing at home genetics testing kit. 23andMe is now a public company, but it wasn't an easy path to get there, selling medical testing straight to consumers rather than to hospitals or pharma companies was part of 23andMe's uphill battle. Still and turned 23andMe into a company worth $3.5 billion on top of that, she's continued to advocate for women in business throughout her career. And welcome to the show. Thank you. We're excited to have you. We like to do kind of a warm up session to get to know you better. So we're going to do a lightning round, quick questions, quick answers. Ready? Yeah. Love it. First.
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"Bloomberg quick takes Tim stenograph from Bloomberg radio So you might recall a November Bloomberg business we cover story about the company 23andMe and how it's looking to leverage all the genetic information it collects to enable it to make and sell its own therapies Basically become a drug maker Yeah far cry from what it was at least starting out to do right Right Well the world of genetic testing and its applications as a diagnostic tool It continues to grow Carol you and I recently caught up with Catherine stolen She's spent more than two decades in healthcare Now she serves as president and CEO of the genetic testing and genomic company gene DX Caffein joined us with an up close look at the company's history and how it's solidifying its place on the cutting edge of precision medicine What I think is really a new era in terms of delivering on the promise of the human genome project as well as something that we've been talking about quite a bit which is precision medicine Gene DX was done out of the NIH 20 years ago And really was known as the company that was who doctors relied on for the hardest to diagnose patients But over time our scientists have been quietly pioneering the next generation of genetic testing that looks deeply at the totality of the human genome to be able to provide a faster diagnosis for patients And in turn be able based on the result of our genetic test be able to tell you what Therapeutics might be able to help you get on a healthier path sooner Well help me understand where patients use this and at what point in their lives they use it because up till now and I don't want to give away too much of my medical history I'm talking on national radio here But my only encounter with genetic testing personally has been when my wife got pregnant with our son And I think that's where a lot of people first interact with it when the person who's pregnant and then the partner get tested But that was it for me That's true for so many people Right now genetic testing is being used and not setting frequently when a woman is thinking about having a baby or she's pregnant and she will still do a test she and her partner will do a test called carrier screening But then what we're able to do on the other side once there is hopefully a healthy baby is be able to ensure that when there is a symptom that that child may be displaying if God forbid the babies in the neonate neonatal intensive care unit or as a toddler we're able to provide based on that baby's genome rapid information that helps get to a diagnosis a definitive diagnosis sooner which is critically important when you're thinking about neurological conditions that could be impacting that child and then getting them on that treatment The other time that people are utilizing genetic information often is when they have a cancer diagnosis So right now it really is being used In the symptomatic setting but genetic information can actually be used in a preventive way to be able to get ahead of developing symptoms and being able to keep people healthy versus diagnosed disease that's already in progress So I think about things Catherine that are just like diabetes which is really we talk about pandemics right It's really becoming a global pandemic in terms of the amount of people who have diabetes How can we use genetic testing How are we maybe already in terms of anticipating it or somehow getting better control of it Because it really just seems like it's out of control So genetic testing right now is really best utilized and setting such as cardiovascular disease and oncology and the pediatric setting for neurological disorders or autism As well as as you mentioned earlier in the prenatal setting when we're trying to assess risk when it comes to a pregnancy For more common conditions that are metabolic in nature like diabetes There's still a lot of work that needs to be done from a technology standpoint to really help us better understand the specific role of genetics that might predispose predispose somebody to being somebody who will have a more severe condition So there's a lot of work going into that you'll hear in the future more about something called polygenic risk scores which is for the broader more common conditions like diabetes And I think that that's going to be on the horizon over the next 5 to ten years We're still in the earlier stages for those sorts of conditions Catherine I want to talk more about the business here because I think when it comes to products such as yours the customer isn't necessarily the inpatient The customer is the provider who is prescribing it or who is actually telling the patient that they should get it How does that sales process work And how do you get your product more in the hands of more providers So it's a really important partnership that we have with provider of patients as well as with the payer And we very much believe that it is the most responsible approach to be working in that partnership because we're delivering information that is actionable Meaning we're providing a genetic report that is saying whether or not somebody may have a health condition that they may need to go undergo some sort of therapy for or change another aspect of their life So it's really important that we are working in partnership there The way that we work today is we sell our testing directly to clinicians mainly this has been to medical geneticists who are kind of the experts expert when it comes to genetics But we're seeing a broader group of clinicians as we mentioned earlier OBs are using it in terms of assessing risk for pregnancy oncologists are using it to assess risk overall as well as what treatment might be met best for a patient So we're starting to see a shift from the expert setting of medical geneticists into broader mainstream medicine And so we educate providers about our services and we work with them.
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"Is Bloomberg business way with Carol matter and Bloomberg quick takes Tim stennis from Bloomberg radio So you might recall on November Bloomberg business we cover story about the company 23andMe and how it's looking to leverage all the genetic information it collects to enable it to make and sell its own therapies Basically become a drug maker Yeah far cry from what it was at least starting out to do right Right Well the world of genetic testing and its applications as a diagnostic tool It continues to grow Carol you and I recently caught up with Catherine stolen She spent more than two decades in healthcare Now she serves as president and CEO of the genetic testing and genomic company gene DX Kevin joined us with an up close look at the company's history and how it solidifying its place on the cutting edge of precision medicine To share with you what I think is really a new era in terms of delivering on the promise of the human genome project as well as something that we've been talking about quite a bit which is precision medicine Gene DX was done out of the NIH 20 years ago And really was known as the company that was who doctors relied on for the hardest to diagnose patients But over time our scientists have been quietly pioneering the next generation of genetic testing that looks deeply at the totality of the human genome to be able to provide a faster diagnosis for patients And in turn be able based on the result of our genetic test be able to tell you what Therapeutics might be able to help you get on a healthier path sooner Well help me understand where patients use this and at what point in their lives they use it because up till now and I don't want to give away too much of my medical history I'm talking on national radio here But my only encounter with genetic testing personally has been when my wife got pregnant with our son And I think that's where a lot of people first interact with it when the person who's pregnant and the partner get tested But that was it for me That's true for so many people Right now genetic testing has been used in that setting frequently when a woman is thinking about having a baby or she's pregnant and she will still do a test she and her partner will do a test called carrier screening But then what we're able to do on the other side once there is hopefully a healthy baby is be able to ensure that when there is a symptom that that child may be displaying if God forbid the babies in the neonate neonatal intensive care unit or as a toddler we're able to provide based on that baby's genome rapid information that helps get to a diagnosis a definitive diagnosis sooner which is critically important when you're thinking about neurological conditions that could be impacting that child And then getting them on that treatment The other time that people are utilizing genetic information often is when they have a cancer diagnosis So right now it really is being used in the symptomatic setting But genetic information can actually be used in a preventive way to be able to get ahead of developing symptoms and being able to keep people healthy versus diagnosed disease that's already in progress So I think about things That are just like diabetes which is really we talk about pandemics right It's really becoming a global pandemic in terms of the amount of people who have diabetes How can we use genetic testing How are we maybe already in terms of anticipating it or somehow getting better control of it Because it really just seems like it's out of control So genetic testing right now is really best utilized and setting such as cardiovascular disease and oncology and the pediatric setting for neurological disorders or autism As well as as you mentioned earlier in the prenatal setting when we're trying to assess risk when it comes to a pregnancy For more common conditions that are metabolic in nature like diabetes There's still a lot of work that needs to be done from a technology standpoint to really help us better understand the specific role of genetics that might predispose predispose somebody to being somebody who will have a more severe condition So there's a lot of work going into that you'll hear in the future more about something called polygenic risk scores which is for the broader more common conditions like diabetes And I think that that's going to be on the horizon over the next 5 to ten years We're still in the earlier stages for those sorts of conditions Katherine I want to talk more about the business here because I think when it comes to products such as yours the customer isn't necessarily the inpatient The customer is the provider who is prescribing it or who is actually telling the patient that they should get it How does that sales process work And how do you get your product more in the hands of more providers So it's a really important partnership that we have with provider of patients as well as with the payer And we very much believe that it is the most responsible approach to be working in that partnership because we're delivering information that is actionable Meaning we're providing a genetic report that is saying whether or not somebody may have a health condition that they may need to go undergo some sort of therapy for or change another aspect of their life So it's really important that we are working in partnership there The way that we work today is we sell our testing directly to clinicians mainly this has been to medical geneticists who are the experts expert when it comes to genetic But we're seeing a broader group of clinicians as we mentioned earlier OBs are using it in terms of assessing risk for pregnancy oncologists or using it to assess risk overall as well as what treatment might be best for a patient So we're starting to see a shift from the expert setting of medical geneticists into broader mainstream medicine And so we educate providers about our services and we work with them.
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"From Bloomberg radio So you might recall on November Bloomberg business we cover story about the company 23andMe and how it's looking to leverage all the genetic information it collects to enable it to make and sell its own therapies basically become a drug maker Yeah far cry from what it was at least starting out to do right Right Well the world of genetic testing and its applications as a diagnostic tool It continues to grow Carol you and I recently caught up with Catherine stolen She spent more than two decades in healthcare Now she serves as president and CEO of the genetic testing in genomic company gene DX Captain joined us with an up close look at the company's history and how it's solidifying its place on the cutting edge of precision medicine To share with you what I think is really a new era in terms of delivering on the promise of the human genome project as well as something that we've been talking about quite a bit which is precision medicine Gene DX was done out of the NIH 20 years ago And really was known as the company that was who doctors relied on for the hardest to diagnose patients But over time our scientists have been quietly pioneering the next generation of genetic testing that looks deeply at the totality of the human genome to be able to provide a faster diagnosis for patients And in turn be able based on the result of our genetic test be able to tell you what Therapeutics might be able to help you get on a healthier path sooner Well help me understand where patients use this and at what point in their lives they use it because up till now and I don't want to give away too much of my medical history I'm talking on national radio here But my only encounter with genetic testing personally has been when my wife got pregnant with our son And I think that's where a lot of people first interact with it when the person who's pregnant and then the partner get tested But that was it for me That's true for so many people Right now genetic testing is being used in that setting frequently when a woman is thinking about having a baby or she's pregnant and she will still do a test she and her partner will do a test called carrier screening But then what we're able to do on the other side once there is hopefully a healthy baby is be able to ensure that when there is a symptom that that child may be displaying if God forbid the babies in the neonate neonatal intensive care unit or as a toddler we're able to provide based on that baby's genome rapid information that helps get to a diagnosis a definitive diagnosis sooner which is critically important when you're thinking about neurological conditions that could be impacting that child and then getting them on that treatment The other time that people are utilizing genetic information often is when they have a cancer diagnosis So right now it really is being used In the symptomatic setting but genetic information can actually be used in a preventive way to be able to get ahead of developing symptoms and being able to keep people healthy versus diagnosed disease that's already in progress So I think about things Catherine that are just like diabetes right which is really we talk about pandemics right It's really becoming a global pandemic in terms of the amount of people who have diabetes How can we use genetic testing How are we maybe already in terms of anticipating it or somehow getting better control of it Because it really just seems like it's out of control So genetic testing right now is really best utilized and setting such as cardiovascular disease and oncology and the pediatric setting for neurological disorders or autism As well as as you mentioned earlier in the prenatal setting when we're trying to assess risk when it comes to a pregnancy For more common conditions that are metabolic in nature like diabetes There's still a lot of work that needs to be done from a technology standpoint to really help us better understand the specific role of genetics that might predispose predispose somebody to being somebody who will have a more severe condition So there's a lot of work going into that you'll hear in the future more about something called polygenic risk risk scores which is for the broader more common conditions like diabetes And I think that that's going to be on the horizon over the next 5 to ten years We're still in the earlier stages for those sorts of conditions Catherine I want to talk more about the business here because I think when it comes to products such as yours the customer isn't necessarily the inpatient The customer is the provider who is prescribing it or who is actually telling the patient that they should get it How does that sales process work And how do you get your product more in the hands of more providers So it's a really important partnership that we have with provider of patient as well as with the payer And we very much believe that it is the most responsible approach to be working in that partnership because we're delivering information that is actionable Meaning we're providing a genetic report that is saying whether or not somebody may have a health condition that they may need to go undergo some sort of therapy for or change another aspect of their life So it's really important that we are working in partnership there The way that we work today is we sell our testing directly to clinicians mainly this has been to medical geneticists who are kind of the experts expert when it comes to genetic But we're seeing a broader group of clinicians as we mentioned earlier obes are using it in terms of assessing risk for pregnancy oncologists are using it to assess risk overall as well as what treatment might be met best for a patient So we're starting to see a shift from the expert setting of medical geneticists into broader mainstream medicine And so we educate providers about our services and we work with them.
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"Money minute Wall Street closed out the week with a mixed session though the doubt finished at a new high Now industrials gained 74 the S&P 500 fell 5 the NASDAQ dropped one 26 Bristol-Myers Squibb is looking to add on to its biopharmaceutical business Sources say it's expressed interest in buying or any of pharmaceuticals which specializes in treatments for severe autoimmune diseases DNA testing giant 23andMe is expanding into telehealth It's paying $400 million for lemonade the startup that provides remote access to healthcare providers and drug delivery services 23andMe wants to make genetics a bigger part of primary care Intel says it may cancel plans for a new U.S. chip plant with efforts to boost the semiconductor industry stalled in Congress Intel's head of government relations says assistance from Washington is crucial to developing the factory Bloomberg radio And JIT makes the workforce of the future and Gregg's solder a member of MJ IT's board of overseers and president of engineering firm WGA says MJ IT graduates have the in demand skills that drive today's tech powered workplace Our world is moving to a place of connecting the physical with the digital in the field of engineering and infrastructure There's not a thing that we do that's not being changed by technology We've gone from two dimensional renderings to immersive augmented and virtual reality solution sets used to be solved one at a time Now we can run nearly.
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"You see the value and worldwide market news The push for a global minimum corporate tax rate is still alive and well and you want it first The Labor Department has sent an emergency regulation to The White House So do we Bond yields around the world are tumbling Bloomberg daybreak With Karen Moscow and Nathan hagar Straight ahead your latest local headlines plus a check of sports We good mornings at 5 eastern On Bloomberg radio the Bloomberg business app and Bloomberg radio dot com This is a Bloomberg money minute Wall Street closed out the week with a mixed session though the doubt finished at a new high Now industrials gained 74 the S&P 500 fell 5 the NASDAQ dropped one 26 Bristol-Myers Squibb is looking to add on to its biopharmaceutical business Sources say it's expressed interest in buying or any a pharmaceuticals which specializes in treatments for severe autoimmune diseases DNA testing giant 23andMe is expanding into telehealth It's paying $400 million for lemonade startup that provides remote access to healthcare providers and drug delivery services 23andMe wants to make genetics a bigger part of primary care Intel says it may cancel plans for a new U.S. chip plant with efforts to boost the semiconductor industry stalled in Congress Intel's head of government relations says assistance from Washington is crucial to developing the factory Bloomberg radio You're never completely ready to adopt a teen For a late night writing.
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Coronavirus: Hollywood Filmmakers Issue Warning Theaters Are Facing Extinction
"This week. Some of Hollywood's biggest names names joining joining forces forces to to warn warn Congress Congress that that movie movie theatres theatres are are facing facing extinction. extinction. Jason Jason Nathan, Nathan, with with a a story story like like a a plot plot out out of of the the Avengers. Avengers. Dozens Dozens of of Hollywood Hollywood heavyweights heavyweights joining joining forces forces to save movie theaters. Clint Eastwood, Jordan Peele, Christopher Nolan, Lee Daniels, Martin Scorsese, Greta Gerwig andMe or sending a letter to the leaders of the Senate and the House, asking them to work together on cinema stimulus cinemas. Support millions of jobs, the letter states. But now we fear for their future, and it warns that the country can't afford to lose the social, economic and cultural value Theaters provide multiplexes have been mostly empty since the start of the pandemic.
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Why forest fires in Siberia, Russia threaten us all
"In Siberia have been releasing record amounts of greenhouse gases, scientists say contributing to global warming. The fires, fueled by abnormally high temperatures have been burning as far north as the Arctic Circle. Moscow correspondent Steve Rosenberg has travelled to the remote Yakutia region in north eastern Russia to gauge the effects of climate change, both on local communities on on the planet. I've got a helicopter flying across northern Siberia. Not far from the Arctic Circle. Look down below, I could see forest stretching forever. But rising from the trees. Our rooms of thick smoke. Because record high temperatures here. Fueling Suresh spies. And that has implications but only for people who live in Siberia for the global climate. Thiss part of Russia is called. It is a huge region. Five times the size of France. Because of all its forests, people here cool. You could hear the lungs of the planet. Well, Judging by all the smoke, I can see our planet has a big problem. Like on the ground. We switch to an off road Russian bag that feels as tough as a tank. Plough through the thick undergrowth. Suddenly out of the window, I see a charred wasteland. Fire has reduced large and silver birch tow ash. We continue on foot with a group of forest Rangers. The range of Valentin tells me is getting hotter and hotter here every year, he spends nearly all his summers now fighting Forest vice When he's not firefighting. He's out hunting in Yakutia before a hunt, Valentin says. Traditionally, we light a campfire. We put pancakes and fermented horse milk by the flames as sacrifices to the spirit of the tiger to make the hunt go well. So a small fire is a source of good. It's the big ones that are bad for you was all right. That was Well, now we've reached a fire. It is incredibly hot here. Flames are licking the undergrowth and Dancing up the tree trunks. Sending Rooms of thick smoke into the air. This is going on across Siberia, a region which is now trapped in a vicious cycle of climate change, because rising temperatures Mean dr Forests and more forests fires like this one and more fires means more carbon emissions being pumped into the atmosphere. Andme or climate change. Two Rangers try to put out the flames using small water pumps. But as soon as one fire is out another sparks It's not just the visible burning. That's a problem. Underground fire is boring. The permafrost ground, which in places has been frozen for tens of thousands of years. That's releasing even Mohr greenhouse gases. Further north in another Siberian forest, local firefighter Even Zahara is filling his water pump from a lake. He's got a shovel, too, to smother any hint of flame recently even helped put out a big fire here that was threatening his village. They're fashionable. I never saw a summer like it even says we had no rain at all. The dry grass was like gunpowder, but it's permafrost Thaw ring that worries me. Most. Our village could end up underwater.