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Biotech / Medical : Helicos
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To: Mike McFarland who wrote (6)10/11/2007 8:54:07 PM
From: Mike McFarland of 29
 
I take it back, I did find something--Thursday WSJ
DNA Decoding Maps Mainstream Future
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Another candidate in the race is Helicos's Heliscope, which the company calls the first "DNA microscope." Unlike the other machines, Helicos's skips a step where pieces of DNA are duplicated before being read into a computer. Helicos says that will make its machine cheaper and easier to operate. The company estimates its equipment, set for release later this year, will cost $2 million. With it, the price of sequencing a person's genome will drop to $100,000, the company says.
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