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by amitutk 3222 days ago
Didn't Grail raise a billion dollars to do just this?
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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-canc... https://www.technologyreview.com/s/607944/grails-1-billion-b...

This is a fairly crowded space.
Yes but grail is doing deep sequencing I believe.
That's exactly what they did in the OP: "the sequencing method is based on deep sequencing"