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by zorm 3227 days ago
Guardant Health is a member of the Blood Profiling Atlas for Cancer (https://www.bloodpac.org/members/) too with a commitment to opening up data for faster discovery. So they're good people!

Now you have to wonder why John Hopkins isn't party to it...

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Hate to be that guy, but as an alum I have to correct this. It's Johns* Hopkins.
Interesting. I always heard it as "John Hopkins", and I guess every time I read it I also auto-corrected it to "John" in my head. It's actually his great-grandmother's maiden name[1]

[1]http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/about/history/history1.html

The company mentioned in the original article (and where a lot of the research was done) is a Hopkins spinout -- Personal Genome Diagnostics. They are indeed a member of BloodPAC.