Craig Venter: Google your date's DNA
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Genetics pioneer Craig Venter has news from the frontiers of biology.
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Still searching for a Valentine's date? Have a penchant for muscular torsos, crew cuts and tattoos?
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A yacht voyage that genome pioneer  Craig Venter took around the world has turned up a startling  array of new genes and new gene families, his team reported on  Tuesday.
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MILLIONS of women search the internet for information about a man before their first date, a survey has revealed.   They check Google, Friends Reunited, My-Space and newspaper sites for gossip or photos.
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Match-making companies are creating new services that allow people to post their dating profile online and then automatically receive a text message on a GPS-enabled phone when a match is nearby, say, at a coffee shop around the corner.
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By John McBride, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Sep. 10--You go to Google and get your search results -- then what?   How do you know whether the sites Google returns can be trusted? You can't. It's you against the world.
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New sites like SpeedDate, WooMe and Crazy Blind Date bring online dating into the Web 2.0 era.
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23andMe.com's Anne Wojcicki talks about the DNA database and Sergey Brin's support.
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The genealogy site is pairing with a DNA research firm.  WASHINGTON  -- For less than $200 and a cheek-swiped cotton swab, amateur historians will soon be able to add DNA results to family tree Web sites.
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The internet is crawling with eligible ladies. Before you start pitching woo, sharpen your game with this handy guide to digital dating. You're practically guaranteed to meet the woman of your dreams. Commentary by Lore Sj&#246;berg.
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MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Sept. 15  /PRNewswire/ -- Webdate.com, the leader of the online dating industry, announces the launch of a new, patent pending technology, the Webdate Desktop Agent.
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Blog: DNA Direct wants to give people an easy way to know what types of genes are affecting their health and future.
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A family history website launches a new service to help track down people's unknown relatives with DNA tests.
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At the last day of the Web 2.0 Summit, attendees learned that having their genome mapped will set them back $300,000 and that&#160;Google&#39;s founders really stress over the prevention and extermination of evil.During a panel of former Google employees, they confirmed to moderator and conference chair John Battelle that, yes, Larry Page and Sergey Brin do factor heavily into business and technology decisions whether they will have evil consequences.WeatherBill CEO David Friedberg belonged to Google&#39;s Corporate Development team and, when negotiating acquisitions, it wasn&#39;t unheard of for either Page or Brin to ask hard questions about the deals if they sensed that the members of companies&#39; management teams had an evil streak, he said.Meanwhile, entrepreneur Bret Taylor, who developed products at Google for four years, said Page and Brin were excellent at steering product teams to think big while reminding them always keep in mind the question of evil.Earlier in the day, genetics maverick J. Craig Venter informed attendees that mapping a person&#39;s genome these days costs about $300,000, but that, as happened with calculators, the price will tumble over time. For instance, if you can wait a couple of years, the cost will probably be closer to $100,000. That&#39;s a bargain compared with the about $70 million that it cost to map Venter&#39;s genome.Venter&#39;s genome is posted on the Internet. He joked that there might come a day when singles on the dating scene will be able to do a Google search for potential mates&#39; genomes, especially if they might at some point consider becoming fruitful and multiplying.The son of a man who died of cardiac arrest at age 59 and of a woman who is still playing golf at 85, Venter has identified genes in his map both for heart disease and longevity. However, he estimates that scientists will need a critical mass of 10,000 human genomes in order to engage in the type of analysis that will lead to major, unequivocal insights about genetic traits.And in a rare display of corporate affection, representatives from Internet archrivals Google and Microsoft sat beside each other at a panel on online maps and exchanged pleasantries.The slightly surreal moment came about halfway through the a panel titled &quot;Edge: Mapping.&quot; Brian McClendon, engineering director and product manager of Google Earth, commended his Microsoft peer Erik Jorgensen, general manager of Live Search, for Microsoft&#39;s support of&#160;Google&#39;s Keyhole Markup Language (KML).KML is the language used to create data files for both Google Maps and its sister desktop application Google Earth. On Monday, Microsoft announced that its&#160;Live Search&#160;engine&#39;s local search component has gained support for KML, giving it access to the wealth of mapping data created with KML and available on the Web.Microsoft and Google can &quot;duke it out&quot; for customer acquisition, but &quot;the fight shouldn&#39;t be on file formats, so cooperating on this makes all the sense in the world,&quot; Jorgensen said during the mini lovefest.
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Plus: Geneticist creates new life forms, legal problems. Read what people are saying on News.com Extra.
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Scientists plan to map the DNA of 1,000 people worldwide to examine human genetic variation
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A DNA-based matchmaking service claims to hook up couples who will share an aromatic attraction.