Adam Boyko, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Sciences in the College of Veterinary Medicine, and his brother Ryan are the co-founders of the Cornell startup Embark Veterinary, a new canine genetics company that will release its first product later this spring. According to an article profiling the company in Bloomberg, Embark will begin selling testing kits designed to give dog owners scientific insight into their pets’ health, behavior and ancestry. The tests will not only give owners valuable information, but also collect data on more than 200,000 genetic markers that could give important insight into human diseases and medicine.

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