Personalized Medicine Is Really Getting Close

Cost of Decoding a Genome Is Lowered, New York Times

A Stanford engineer has invented a new technology for decoding DNA and used it to decode his own genome for less than $50,000. he engineer, Stephen R. Quake, says the low cost "will democratize access to the fruits of the genome revolution" by enabling many labs and hospitals to decode whole human genomes.

Until now only companies or genome sequencing centers, equipped with large staffs and hundreds of machines, have been able to decipher the three billion units in a human genome.