2009
AIP Industrial Physics Forum: It took scientists more than
twenty years after the first DNA sequencing technology was
discovered to sequence the entire human genome; yet our own
cells complete this task every time our bodies produces a
daughter cell.So to achieve the goal of real time DNA
sequencing,
Pacific
Biosciences had the idea to spy on Mother Nature as she
goes to work copying DNA. Now, the company's commercial device
planned to be on the market in 2010, promises to be 20,000
times faster than current second generation technology, with
turn around time of about ten minutes rather than ten
days.Chief Technology Officer Steve Turner says in four to five
years, new technologies promise to rocket this technology
forward even further, making it will possible to sequence an
entire human genome in fifteen minutes, on a chip that costs
less than 100 dollars
