Human Genome Cost of Car

08-12-2009 • arclein

The achievement, unveiled in draft form in 2001 and finished in 2003, was hailed as one of humanity's major scientific achievements. Since then, sequencing "has become an order of magnitude cheaper and faster" every couple of years, said Lynda China, a medical researcher at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. In 2007, the firm 454 Life Sciences did it in under three months and for less than a million dollars.

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