How will patients, families and doctors handle the coming flood of personalized genetic data?
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 - 15:30
in Biology & Nature
Sequencing the entire human genome took more than a decade before leaders of the Human Genome Project announced their completion of a rough draft in a 2000 White House ceremony. Finished in 2003, sequencing that first genome cost nearly $3 billion. Today, with advances in technology, an individual's whole genome can be sequenced in a few months for about $4,000.