SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) today announced it has a new benchtop Ion Proton™ Sequencer that is designed to sequence the entire human genome in a day for $1,000.
Baylor College of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, andThe Broad Institute will be the first customers to adopt this new technology.
"We are excited about the paradigm-shifting potential of the new Proton Sequencer, which projects to sequence a human genome in just a few hours with only one run on a single machine," said Dr. Chad Nusbaum, co-director of the Broad Institute's Genome Sequencing and Analysis Program. "The platform's speed and power promise to enable both large-scale research and new clinical applications." Read More
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Baylor College of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, andThe Broad Institute will be the first customers to adopt this new technology.
"We are excited about the paradigm-shifting potential of the new Proton Sequencer, which projects to sequence a human genome in just a few hours with only one run on a single machine," said Dr. Chad Nusbaum, co-director of the Broad Institute's Genome Sequencing and Analysis Program. "The platform's speed and power promise to enable both large-scale research and new clinical applications." Read More
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