One has a BA in biology, the other a BS. Aside from the people they know, their primary qualifications are that they worked in pharmaceutical sales and investment.
This is a field involving cutting-edge research in biology, biochemistry, computer science and mathematics. There's a reason that drug companies have doctorates in their top executive positions....
No, there's nothing to this field. The people doing the research have to be qualified, but all 23andme is doing is marketing and sales. They buy chips from www.illumina.com and resell them with service for twice as much money.
