What do 10,000 people with autism, 50,000 people in some remote islands in the North Atlantic, and 1,000 healthy old folks in southern California have in common? They are on the front edge of one of the most exciting stories in science today, and their contributions will have a huge impact on our long-term understanding of biology and medicine.
The headlines from just the last couple weeks in genomics are jaw-dropping. Experiments are being announced almost every week which would have been unimaginable even a year ago when sequencing a whole genome cost around $10,000. Suddenly an individual’s entire genome, the complete 6 billion letter signature of DNA units in each human, can be had for $4,000 or less, in a few weeks. And that has enabled scientists and business people to dream some pretty big dreams, like these:
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Author:Luke Timmerman
