How a big biotech’s start-up gamble went wrong
Behind the Money
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The History of Illumina's Acquisition of Grail
In 2017, Illumina spun this new cancer screening company out onto its own. They got more than two billion of investment from the likes of Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos. By 2020, the data that Grail was producing for its tests was looking good. And Illumina, Grail's former home, was taking notice. So it actually bought back Grail for $8 billion.
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