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Didn't Grail raise a billion dollars to do just this?

• epistasis 9y ago
  This is a fairly crowded space.
• Wellacopia 9y ago
  I guess what's new is that the scientists found a way to distinguish between cancer dna and other altered/mutated dna so they reduce the occurrence of false positives. http://fortune.com/2017/06/03/liquid-biopsy-grail-blood-cancer/ http://fortune.com/2017/06/03/liquid-biopsy-grail-blood-canc... https://www.technologyreview.com/s/607944/grails-1-billion-bet-on-the-perfect-cancer-test/ https://www.technologyreview.com/s/607944/grails-1-billion-b...
• sjg007 9y ago
  Yes but grail is doing deep sequencing I believe.
  • adenadel 9y ago
    That's exactly what they did in the OP: "the sequencing method is based on deep sequencing"