Chip Makes DNA Sequencing Affordable

The Ion Personal Genome Machine is affordable, as these things go, and can sequence a DNA sample in just 2 hours.

Larry Seltzer, Contributor

January 9, 2012

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You might not need to sequence DNA very often, but labs all over the world do. And with the Ion Personal Genome Machine from Life Technologies it's affordable, as these things go.

The chip is part of a larger device that takes a DNA sample and sequences it in just two hours.

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