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He's Got the Money to Do Something About It

Sep 19, 2008

Based on a genome scan from his wife's company, 23andMe, Google's Sergey Brin learned that he has a mutation of the LRRK2 gene that accounts for a good portion of familial Parkinson's disease.

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