Marijuana DNA Sequenced by Startup in Search for Medical Uses
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Kevin McKernan was leading Life Technologies Corp.’s Ion Torrent DNA-sequencing research when a new business opportunity caught his eye: marijuana.
A year later, McKernan, 38, has quit his job, formed a startup run from his house in Marblehead, Massachusetts, and announced today that the company had sequenced the entire genome of the cannabis plant.