LunaDNA to Issue Company Shares in Exchange for Personal Genomic Data

Oct 05, 2018

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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Startup genomic and medical research company LunaDNA is getting out of the crowded cryptocurrency field by assigning actual monetary values to the clinical and genomic data it purchases from patients.

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