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When's the Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony?

Mar 14, 2008

Eye on DNA's Hsien-Hsien Lei reports that Navigenics' doors might be opening in April. The company's website launched last August and now Portfolio.com says Navigenics will begin providing its $2,500 test next month. Portfolio's David Ewing Duncan also doubts that consumer genomics testing will "ever be as wild or cool as the '90s dotcoms" and right now "much of the information isn't ready for prime time."

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