[amitutk]

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

[Wellacopia]

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...

[epistasis]

This is a fairly crowded space.

[sjg007]

Yes but grail is doing deep sequencing I believe.

[adenadel]

That's exactly what they did in the OP: "the sequencing method is based on deep sequencing"