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Leading the Pack

Feb 26, 2010

The current issue of MIT’s Technology Review lists what it deems the “50 most innovative companies in the world.” Included among the top public biomedical companies are Alnylam, Illumina, and Nanosphere. Tech Review calls Illumina the “the fastest-growing genomics company.” On the top private biomedical companies list are Complete Genomics, Fluidigm, and Pacific Biosciences. Complete is included for “sequencing human genomes to order” and PacBio’s innovation, according to Tech Review, is: “accurate sequencing in real time.” Also on the list, in the private energy company category are Amyris, Joule Biotechnologies, and Synthetic Genomics.

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