Genomics Needs A Killer App

Mark Kaganovich, TechCrunch
Fri, 03/27/2015 - 4:14pm

Genomics has undergone a major shift in the last year. The drop in price in the past decade from $3B to $1K to sequence a genome is the 10X force likely to cause an inflection point in a number of health-related industries. But despite the price, right now genomics is a niche product in large part used in and promoted by academia.

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