2 Top Genome Testing Stocks for Your Watch List
There has been an extraordinary leap in understanding the human genome and its role in health and disease in recent years. That knowledge, combined with machine learning, is giving rise to the kind of diagnostic progress we could only have dreamed of a decade ago. Let's take a look at two companies that could make you money while changing the course of medicine.
Exact Sciences (NASDAQ: EXAS) made a splash in the world of cancer detection with the 2014 introduction of Cologuard, a noninvasive screening tool for colon cancer, America's second-deadliest cancer. Until Cologuard came along, colonoscopies, which are far more inconvenient and expensive, were the standard for cancer detection.
Exact Sciences explains the revolutionary test this way: "Cologuard identifies DNA mutations that are acquired over time in cells lining the colon; these mutations can be associated with the presence of colon cancer or precancerous lesions."
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