The “Google of genomics” meets the techbashers of antitrust

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The “Google of genomics” meets the techbashers of antitrust
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GRAIL’s return to Illumina, the world’s biggest gene-sequencing firm, is intriguing for three reasons

-2 genome at the start of the covid-19 pandemic. Using technology acquired with the purchase in 2007 of Solexa, a British company, it provides gene-sequencing tools to genomics companies, including those developing liquid biopsies or blood tests for cancer. Mr deSouza reckons that the global market for cancer gene-sequencing could be worth $75bn by 2035. That looks promising for a gene-sequencing provider. Even more so ifcan change the efficacy and economics of cancer care.

The antitrust concerns can be viewed narrowly or broadly. From a narrow perspective, customers of Illumina who hope to compete within testing may worry that Illumina will charge them higher prices for sequencers. That could give, if it has lower sequencing costs, an edge. Illumina counters that it has no incentive to harm its clients, because it makes much more money selling sequencers than it does selling tests. It has also pledged to supply sequencers to them on the same terms as it does to.

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