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So it was a bit surreal that we had our first scientific advisory board meeting for Eve Bio yesterday with Craig Venter, the first to sequence the human genome, and a variety of other amazing people. Eve is working to develop a novel approach to sequencing where a cell phone imager could perform multiple reads in parallel and lower the cost to $100 for a full human genome sequence. If they succeed in this, you may find yourself sequenced as often as you get a blood test. More photos: www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153515350150611&set…

4 responses to “Eve Bio — next gen DNA sequencing with Craig Venter”

  1. seatonsnet Avatar
    seatonsnet

    I suppose this is good news, but after the Snowden revelations, I’m not so sure… How could this information be used for sinister purposes? I have no idea, but I’m sure that there are people who do.

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  2. scleroplex Avatar
    scleroplex

    soon it will be mandatory to be sequenced on arrival at a US airport.

    (demanding a fingerprint without probable cause of a crime used to be illegal. imagine!)

    if you tell US citizens it is to keep them safe they agree to absolutely anything.
    and they will love it further when they are told that the aliens will have to pay for it out of pocket, like for interrogations in Terry Gilliam’s film Brazil.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_(1985_film)

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  3. jurvetson Avatar
    jurvetson

    Since flickr has killed photoblogging, i guess I need a new place to post collections of photos; I’ll use Facebook for now: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153515350150611&set...

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  4. jgury Avatar
    jgury

    "The cost-per-bit of biologic information is coming down faster than Moore’s Law," says G. Steven …." He must be in the Paul Krugman school of understanding Moore’s law. Hard to see too much downside unless you are fanatical about never being identified genomically or otherwise. Of course the US is now behind India implementing a national biometric / genomic citizen id – that only makes sense as a political issue, which is absurd. But I repeat myself.
    Flickr killing photoblogging? Still ok for what it is. FB is a poor alternative on any number of major levels.
    money.cnn.com/2013/06/25/technology/enterprise/low-cost-g…

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