Diagnostic Industry Trends Hinge On Gene-Based Tests
Executive Summary
In 2011, sequencing was once again the big story in diagnostics. But unlike 2010 when the big news was the successful IPOs of next-generation sequencing companies Pacific Biosciences and Complete Genomics, the tone in 2011 was more nuanced.
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