The new Personal Genome Machine was used to decode the DNA of the deadly strain of E. coli that ravaged Europe this spring. And it is also the first iteration of a machine that will be able to sequence genomes as you wait, anywhere in the world.
It's a long-awaited scientific prize: swipe a tiny bit of DNA, and run a cheap, accurate, and portable test to get a person's full genetic blueprint for $1,000. A new machine that promises to help usher in this era recently took an early test lap by decoding--in just three days--the genome of the E. coli strains that plagued Germany this past May.
Produced by Ion Torrent, a division of Life Technologies, the Personal Genome Machine (Pgm) packs a genomic sequencer onto a computer chip able to read a bacterial genome in less than two hours, and produce a rough draft of a human genome.
It's a long-awaited scientific prize: swipe a tiny bit of DNA, and run a cheap, accurate, and portable test to get a person's full genetic blueprint for $1,000. A new machine that promises to help usher in this era recently took an early test lap by decoding--in just three days--the genome of the E. coli strains that plagued Germany this past May.
Produced by Ion Torrent, a division of Life Technologies, the Personal Genome Machine (Pgm) packs a genomic sequencer onto a computer chip able to read a bacterial genome in less than two hours, and produce a rough draft of a human genome.
- 7/27/2011
- by Michael J. Coren
- Fast Company
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