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• AFP

Sequencing the first human genome cost billions and required an army of scientists.  8 years later a trio of researchers in the US have matched that feat for the price mid-range BMW.   “This can be done in one lab, with one machine, and at a modest cost” of about $50,000, said Stanford University professor Stephen Quake, who designed the study and lent his DNA for the task.

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