Illumina & Guardant Settle Trade Secret Lawsuit

Two companies involved in early cancer detection have settled a lawsuit involving the theft of trade secrets, according to a report from Reuters.

San Diego, CA-based Illumina claimed that Guardant Health’s founders Helmy Eltoukhy and AmirAli Talasaz, who both once worked at Illumina, took confidential documents from Illumina related to its gene-sequencing technology.