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03 Mar 09

Technology Review: TR10: $100 Genome

  • Despite many experts' doubt that whole-genome sequencing could be done for $1,000, let alone a 10th that much, BioNanomatrix believes it can reach the $100 target in five years. The reason for its optimism: company founder Han Cao has created a chip that uses nanofluidics and a series of branching, ever-narrowin­g channels to allow researchers, for the first time, to isolate and image very long strands of individual DNA molecules.
30 Jan 09

New computational technique allows comparison of whole genomes as easily as whole books

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  • Text comparison of English books with the FFP method yields a relationship tree that groups similar books together, by genre, period or author. Credit: Sung-Hou Kim laboratory, UC Berkeley
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Family Dog Cloned Thanks to Dolly Patents | Intellectual Property Law | IPWatchdog.com

  • The Ottos were one of five families to bid and win an auction held by BioArts International in July for a chance to clone their family dog. Lancey’s genetic donor, Sir Lancelot, died in January, 2008, and the Ottos had his DNA stored. By October, samples from the original dog were on their way to the Sooam Biotech Research Foundation in Seoul, South Korea, which provides cloning services to BioArts.
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