Illumina Acquisition of GRAIL On September 21, 2020, Illumina and GRAIL Inc. announced that they entered into a definitive agreement under which Illumina will acquire GRAIL for cash and stock consideration of $8 billion, upon closing of the transaction. On March 31, 2021, Illumina announced that it disagrees with, and will oppose, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) challenge to its previously announced acquisition of GRAIL. Illumina …

Prohost Letter #431 Genomes, Genes and Gene Therapies In this issue of the Prohost Letter we focus on genomes, genes and gene therapies. National DNA day is April 25th . On this day we commemorate: James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins, Rosalind Franklin and other of their collegues who published papers on the structure of DNA in 1953. It is an opportunity to celebrate the …

Prohost Letter #404 Part 1 HAPPY SPIRITUAL HOLIDAYS HAPPY NEW YEA

As we kept describing it, Illumina’s (ILMN) is the engine behind the biological revolution reflected in the current existence of treatments, which aim at targets that were unknown before this firm enabled discovering them. Illumina’s establishing and launching the independent company, Grail, will speed the successful outcome of the war against cancer. It will contribute to advancing the diagnosis of cancer through a tremendous increase in the sensitivity …