Anne Wojcicki

I was really raised in a gender-neutral household. I always knew I was a girl, but it never occurred to me that there was a limitation. ”

Incorporating genetics into a platform with the reach of ResearchKit will accelerate insights into illness and disease even further. ”

Our understanding of how DNA informs our health and development is advancing at an incredible pace. ”

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. ”

Genetic testing in the future is going to be seen as critical as testing your cholesterol. ”

Being able to do research in a real-time way is the way research needs to be done in the future. ”

We don't have enough data about how lifestyle decisions impact our health. ”

There's not enough competition and innovation in healthcare. ”

Nobody can quantify for you what's the impact of eating fiber every day, for instance. We can say we think it's good. But some people might say 'Oh, it reduces your risk of colon cancer by 20%, some people might say it reduces your risk by 25%.' ”

The world needs more social innovations. ”