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Speaker: Stephen Quake, Stanford University
Introduced by: Rodney Pearlman, RPM Pharma
Joined by: Brook Byers, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Susan Desmond-Hellmann, UCSF
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Now microfluidic LSI (2002-2007)
Fluidigm corporation was set up to monetize microfluidic work
* geotype salmon, faster, cheaper and with less reagent
* colon stem cells are responsible for the ocntinuous regeneration of the colonic epithlium
* cancer is a disease of heterogenaity
* also founded Helicos (DNA sequencing firm), which is part of lowering the cost of sequencing to democratize access to sequencing.
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