Apparently James Watson got his genome sequenced for less than I’d thought. I’d heard, and been telling people, it was around $10m. No, says MIT, it was more like $2m. FuturePundit has a handy list of the consequences when human-genome sequencing gets really cheap–like, birthday-present cheap. Which, if prices keep dropping at this rate, will be in ten years or so.
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Mr. Derbyshire is a former contributing editor of National Review.
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