UI researchers develop faster, cheaper DNA sequencing

Sequencing a genome is still laborious and expensive, the kind of thing you do for the human race but not for a human – not routinely anyway.

Push down the price to $1,000 or less, a target at which many scientists and technologists are aiming, and testing for errors in an individual's genetic code, which may be at the root of a variety of illnesses, could become a common diagnostic procedure.

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