Stanford professor sequences his entire genome at low cost, with small team
Monday, August 10, 2009 - 14:49
in Biology & Nature
STANFORD, Calif. -- The first few times that scientists mapped out all the DNA in a human being in 2001, each effort cost hundreds of millions of dollars and involved more than 250 people. Even last year, when the lowest reported cost was $250,000, genome sequencing still required almost 200 people. In a paper to be published online Aug.