The chief executive of a major maker of DNAsequencingtechnology is talking about getting regulatory clearance to use his technology for medical purposes.
This is thanks first to the DNAsequencingtechnology introduced by 454 Life Sciences (now part of Roche), and then to the even faster, cheaper technology introduced by Illumina, which is now the dominant maker of DNAsequencing gear.
The microbiome, made much easier to study by new DNA-sequencing technology (which lets you distinguish between bugs without having to grow them on Petri dishes), is thus a trendy area of science.
The PGM uses a semiconductor chip to sequencingDNA, a technology that Ion Torrent founder Jonathan Rothberg says will allow his machine to increase in speed at a rate of 10-fold every six months.