we hired kathy hibbs of genomic health and she had a tremendous amount of experience.he understood genetics, she understood the fda and how we could structure the company so people could see the path we were taking. emily: there's so much more you want to accomplish like tests for breast cancer and alzheimer's. what is the progress on that? those have not been approved. anne: that's the top of my list. those are the things we are talking to the fda about, what is the pathway going to look like to move that forward? i don't have any updates on that. emily: your original idea was to give consumers access to their own data and amass so much data that you could single-handedly move science forward. now you have one million customers. is this the single biggest dna database out there? anne: it's definitely the biggest one being used for research. what was exciting to me about "23andme" and what we were trying to do, all your genetic information, everything about what you eat and how you exercise and your medical conditions and what you respond well to, that with all this in

we hired kathy hibbs of genomic health and she had a tremendous amount of experience. she understood genetics, she understood the fda and how we could structure the company so people could see the path we were taking. and that people wanted to join. emily: there's so much more you want to accomplish like tests for breast cancer and alzheimer's. does have not been approved, what is the progress on those? anne: that's the top of my list. those are the things we are talking to the fda about, what is the pathway going to look like to move that forward? i don't have any updates on that. emily: your original idea was to give consumers access to their own data and amass so much data that you could single-handedly move science forward. you say you now have one million customers. is this the single biggest dna database out there? anne: it's definitely the biggest one being used for research. what was exciting to me about "23andme" and what we were trying to do, all your genetic information, everything about what you eat and how you exercise in your medical conditions and what y