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Base Genomics raises seed $11M for new DNA methylation liquid biopsy detection tech

June 5, 2020

LONDON – Base Genomics Ltd. has raised $11 million in an oversubscribed seed round to commercialize a new liquid biopsy technology for detecting DNA methylation, invented in the U.K. at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research at Oxford University.

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