BillionToOne Is Solving One of Biotech’s Hardest Problems
1 in 11 babies born in America this year will be screened by a genetic test that didn't exist a decade ago.
Biotech startup BillionToOne turned a simple but radical idea—detecting rare fragments of fetal DNA in a mother's blood—into one of the most widely used prenatal tests in the U.S. And they're not stopping there. The same approach could unlock something even bigger: early-stage cancer detection from a blood test, a breakthrough that could one day save millions of lives.
In this episode of Hard Tech, YC's Jared Friedman sits down with David Tsao and Oguzhan Atay to hear how they went fro…
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Chapters (10)
Finding One Mutation in Billions
1:00
Detecting Disease From a Blood Sample
2:10
From Lab Idea to $4B Company
3:05
The Breakthrough That Made It Possible
5:15
Building the First Test From Scratch
7:30
One Customer and a Sales Crisis
8:55
Inside the Lab: How It Actually Works
12:10
Detecting Cancer From Blood
13:50
The Path to Early Cancer Detection
16:05
Why Early Cancer Detection Is So Hard
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