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Guardant Health and OncoMed Pharmaceuticals to collaborate on custom blood test

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Guardant Health and OncoMed Pharmaceuticals will collaborate using Guardant Health’s digital sequencing technology to develop a custom blood test that looks for specific biomarkers relevant to OncoMed’s ongoing phase Ia/Ib trial of its anti-RSP03 antibody. RSPO3 gene overexpression, including RSPO3 gene fusions, appear to drive tumor growth in subsets of several cancers, including colon, ovarian,...

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