The pharma company GlaxoSmithKline will team with 23andMe on developing new drugs, it said in a statement.
What: The $300 million investment in 23andMe shows how drug companies are betting on human genetics to decide what medicines to pursue. Hal Barron, Glaxo’s R&D boss, said the deal was part of an effort to speed up the drug search.
The database: It’s huge and getting bigger. 23andMe has DNA data on more than five million people, which it collected by selling them ancestry and health tests.
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