Costs plummeting for human genome sequencing

November 7th, 2008 By Suzanne Bohan

The relatively low cost of sequencing the genome of a Chinese man and an African man brings ever closer the prospect that average people can see their full genetic blueprint, according to separate studies published this week in the journal Nature.

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I like how someone says the cost of something we didn't know how to do in the past and had to invest lord knows how much resorces to figure out how to do... Is getting cheaper.
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