Gamow Labs CEO uses AI to reanalyze rare-disease genomes, found what prenatal sequencing missed
danielmckinn0n · x · 2026-10-07
In a podcast interview, Gamow Labs CEO Daniel McKinnon describes building AI systems to reanalyze unresolved rare-disease genomes and using a rescued laboratory to generate new biological evidence.
- Much of the conversation centers on the VUS boundary: a biology study can add ACMG points to a patient's case while teaching machines what a genome region does
- The work's origin is personal: McKinnon's own reanalysis found what a prenatal sequencing lab missed — a disease-causing deletion outside a clinical lab's search cutoff that an AI agent kept looking for
- The company is hiring
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