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Mar 2021
38m 40s

Solving Medical Mysteries in the World o...

Andreessen Horowitz, a16z Bio + Health
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In this conversation, Stanford Professor Euan Ashley—geneticist, cardiologist, author of the new book, The Genome Odyssey, and first co-chair of the Undiagnosed Diseases Network—talks with Bio Eats World host Hanne Winarsky about one of the first places that genomic sequencing began to dramatically impact patients’ lives, and those of their families around t ... Show More
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