Mosaic · How It Works

From cheek swab to your operating manual.

Five minutes at home. Prepaid mail-back. Fifteen to twenty days for your full data file and reports. Here’s exactly what happens at each step.

The process

Four steps. About twenty days.

Step 01~3 minutes
Order your kit
Choose your option at checkout. We ship a prepaid at-home cheek-swab kit. No doctor visit required, no separate lab fee.
Step 025 minutes at home
Collect at home
Wait an hour after eating, then scrape each cheek for 45 seconds. Five minutes start to finish. Seal the swab in the included tube.
Step 03~5 days in transit
Mail it back
Drop the prepaid envelope in the mail. The sample reaches the lab in a few days; whole-genome sequencing at 30× depth runs from there.
Step 0415–20 days total
Get your report
Your raw data and the 108-insight Genomic Lifestyle Optimization Report land in your Mosaic account. Yours, forever.

A clear-eyed view

Mosaic doesn’t predict your future. It tells you how your specific biology tends to respond to things you can change.

Can

Show your genetic tendencies across 9 areas of your health, with the specific gene variants behind each finding.
Name the lifestyle modulators most associated with each pathway: cofactors, dietary triggers, training inputs, sleep timing.
Surface nutrient-need and detoxification-capacity findings that consumer SNP-chip tests miss because the chip never read the relevant positions.
Give you the raw genomic data to take to any practitioner, in any standard format, for the rest of your life.

Cannot

Not a prediction of your health future. Variants are associated with tendencies, not with outcomes. Your lifestyle is half the equation.
Not a replacement for bloodwork, clinical diagnosis, or professional healthcare. Mosaic is education, not medical advice.
Not aware of your current symptoms, medications, or history. The report is built from your DNA alone. A clinician adds the rest.
Not a list of things you “must” do. Every finding names the options; what to do with the information is the work you do with a practitioner or on your own.

Want the science underneath all of this? Read Genomics 101 →