The fierce race to lower costs brings the human genome sequencing is in his prime. A research center belonging to IBM has completed 15 years of work on a technique to sequence the human genome in just 6 hours and cost about $ 100 (about 80 euros al cambio).
just a few years ago, news broke that a huge team of scientists had managed to completely sequence the human genome. They needed thousands of experts and millions of dollars to get, in addition to very powerful computers and many years of work. What we thought the news of the century, progress has been made into something almost everyday.
DNA sequencing no longer seems like science fiction, or physically or economically. With the development of computing and its steady increases in speed while decreasing costs, the systems needed to calculate the DNA sequences became cheaper and faster. Prices have been falling steadily and appears from time to time some news where someone breaks a record price and time taken to accomplish the feat.
Stanislav Polonsky and his team at the Watson Research Center of IBM, in cooperation with Roche Applied Science, in Connecticut and the University of Oxford, UK, began fifteen years ago a revolutionary technique called Solid State Nanopore Sequencing ( nanopore sequencing Solid State), which consists of a chip (costs $ 100) that single DNA fiber filters by a nanoscale pores and is examining all the chemical structure rapidly and in parallel. Each nucleotide generates an "electrical fingerprint" different information that can be used to distinguish between the different fragments of molecules that pass through the detector. Thus, the technique becomes 30 times faster than current technologies, so that any expert who can use it to sequence a complete human genome in just 6 hours.
This will allow physicians to genuine genetic databases of patients and have comprehensive records DNA to anticipate possible illnesses and correct in time genetic faults that may occur. Even fetuses get medical devise a strategy to repair the damage genetic hereditary bring the baby in the womb. The cost and speed in competition with a simple blood test that in any medical center perform on a massive scale. It has created a company called Oxford Nanopore that intends to commercialize this technique soon.
just a few years ago, news broke that a huge team of scientists had managed to completely sequence the human genome. They needed thousands of experts and millions of dollars to get, in addition to very powerful computers and many years of work. What we thought the news of the century, progress has been made into something almost everyday.
DNA sequencing no longer seems like science fiction, or physically or economically. With the development of computing and its steady increases in speed while decreasing costs, the systems needed to calculate the DNA sequences became cheaper and faster. Prices have been falling steadily and appears from time to time some news where someone breaks a record price and time taken to accomplish the feat.
Stanislav Polonsky and his team at the Watson Research Center of IBM, in cooperation with Roche Applied Science, in Connecticut and the University of Oxford, UK, began fifteen years ago a revolutionary technique called Solid State Nanopore Sequencing ( nanopore sequencing Solid State), which consists of a chip (costs $ 100) that single DNA fiber filters by a nanoscale pores and is examining all the chemical structure rapidly and in parallel. Each nucleotide generates an "electrical fingerprint" different information that can be used to distinguish between the different fragments of molecules that pass through the detector. Thus, the technique becomes 30 times faster than current technologies, so that any expert who can use it to sequence a complete human genome in just 6 hours.
This will allow physicians to genuine genetic databases of patients and have comprehensive records DNA to anticipate possible illnesses and correct in time genetic faults that may occur. Even fetuses get medical devise a strategy to repair the damage genetic hereditary bring the baby in the womb. The cost and speed in competition with a simple blood test that in any medical center perform on a massive scale. It has created a company called Oxford Nanopore that intends to commercialize this technique soon.
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