Crowdsourced Genomic Resource DNA.Land to Relaunch as Company

Sep 16, 2019

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NEW YORK – DNA.Land, a resource launched four years ago by researchers at Columbia University and the New York Genome Center that crowdsources genomic data from consumer genomics customers for research purposes, said this week that it would be shutting down and relaunching as a company.

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