Sarah Zhang Science

Illumina, the Google of Genetic Testing, Has Plans for World Domination

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You could say that Illumina is to DNA sequencing is what Google is to Internet search, but that would be underselling the San Diego-based biotech company. Illumina’s machines, the best and cheapest on the market, generate 90 percent of all DNA sequence data today. Illumina is, as they say, crushing it. Read more.