Personal DNA Sequencing Machine One Step Closer

Posted by timothy on Saturday July 23, 2011 @11:50AM from the who-the-hell-are-you? dept.

oxide7 writes "A new, low cost semiconductor-based gene sequencing machine has been developed and may unlock the door to advanced medicines and life itself. A team led by Jonathan Rothberg of Ion Torrent in Guilford, Conn is working on a system which uses semiconductors to decode DNA, dramatically reducing costs and taking them closer to being able to reach the goal of a $1000 human genome test. The current optical based system costs around $49000 and is already on the market and being used in over 40 countries."

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Personal DNA Sequencing Machine One Step Closer

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