Medical Testing Is So Hot Right Now. This Startup Wants In. In an article for Wired, Nick Stockton introduces us to The California Headquarters of Cofactor Genomics. It’s a bright little bungalow a few blocks from downtown Mountain View. Cofactor, an RNA sequencing company is turning away from drug discovery for big pharma toward consumer diagnostics. That’s right, a pivot.
When you get your blood drawn, doctors are looking for proteins and antibodies inside it—proxies for disease. Based on the presence and quantities of certain proteins or antibodies, a diagnostic physician can say with reasonable certainty whether you’ve been fighting off a particular disease. That’s the kind of test…Read more
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