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As U.S. Looks to Launch Precision Health Study, Google’s Role Emerges

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Google’s parent company Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG ) and its wholly owned biotech R&D group, Verily Life Sciences, are helping build a secure center where health records, genomic data, and other personal information from hundreds of thousands of people can be collected, analyzed, and shared with health researchers.

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If Budget Holds, NIH Precision Study Could Be Flush As Volunteers Arrive

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But in staving off a government shutdown, Congress pushed back hard against the White House’s funding proposal to cover the rest of the current fiscal year, which runs through September. But as things stand, the Precision Medicine Initiative, or PMI, could get as much as. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Precision Medicine In Trump Era? California Presses Own Modest Program

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Among the many questions swirling around the incoming Trump administration is the fate of ambitious biomedical science projects that require federal funding. Its focus is funding biomedical projects that might. While that question hangs in the air, the state of California’s own precision medicine plan is moving ahead.

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