When a state jury saw theentire video sequence and heard experts from both the defense and prosecution comment on what it depicted, they acquitted the officers of wrongdoing.
The monumental effort to sequencetheentire human genome -- to spell out the 3 billion or so combinations of those letters in a cell's DNA -- is keeping a lot of academic and commercial laboratories busy.
For an era of targeted therapies, Private Health runs a full battery of molecular diagnostics "to sequencetheentire three billion base pairs of somebody's DNA in a couple of hours, " Mr. Michelson marvels.
Though the firm has proved the principle, a single pore would take about 70 days to sequence an entire human genome (which has roughly the same number of letters as 1, 000 Russian novels).