Ion Torrent Chip to Sequence DNA

In the race to realize “the $1,000 genome,” a small sequencing company, Ion Torrent (Guilford, CT) has moved the ball with a semiconductor chip machine that can sequence in hours what other machines do in a week or more, and it projects the cost of this sequencer to be around $50,000 compared to today’s $500,000 models.  While Ion Torrent is a small company, a major player in this field, Life Technologies, bought the firm last August for $375m.             MORE

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