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The ability to sequence a human genome for just $1,000 has arrived, a US genetics company has announced.
San Diego-based Illumina says it is to release a new sequencing machine that can deliver five genomes in a day.
The race to unlock a human's genetic blueprint for $1,000 has been underway for more than a decade.
The Archon X Prize had offered $10m to the first team that hit this target or came closest, until the contest was cancelled in August 2013.
The term was thought up as a symbolic landmark that would, in theory, light the fires of a long-anticipated revolution in personalised medicine.
Understanding how genes influence disease could lead to better treatments for patients.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25751958
San Diego-based Illumina says it is to release a new sequencing machine that can deliver five genomes in a day.
The race to unlock a human's genetic blueprint for $1,000 has been underway for more than a decade.
The Archon X Prize had offered $10m to the first team that hit this target or came closest, until the contest was cancelled in August 2013.
The term was thought up as a symbolic landmark that would, in theory, light the fires of a long-anticipated revolution in personalised medicine.
Understanding how genes influence disease could lead to better treatments for patients.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25751958