Microfluidic Sequencing

David Weitz and physicist colleagues at Harvard have done preliminary work that shows DNA can be sequenced using a microfluidics device.  And, by using picoliters of sequencing reagents, Weitz estimates that the cost of sequencing a human genome, now running between $20k and $50k, might be as little as $30 (i.e. no “k,” just thirty dollars).  A startup, GnuBio, has formed to develop this idea commercially.             MORE

Image Credit:  Microfluidics Sequencing team/Weitz Lab and Technology Review

http://www.masshightech.com/stories/2010/05/31/daily32-GnuBio-launches-as-open-source-genome-sequencing-startup.html