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a16z Podcast: On the Genomics of Disease, From Science to Business

2016-10-18 00:00:00 +0000 UTC ·30m 38s ·by Andreessen Horowitz
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About this episode

Once we sequenced the human genome, we’d know the cause of – and therefore be able to help cure – all diseases… Or so we thought. Turns out, 20,000 genes (and counting) didn’t really explain why disease occurred. Sure, some could be explained by mutations in a single genome, but most, like cance