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March 26, 2013 05:08 am GMT

With $6.25M In Tow, Bina Technologies Wants To Bring Big Data Insight To Genomic Sequencing

Screen shot 2013-03-22 at 5.25.39 AMOnce unfathomably expensive, thanks to scientific and technological advances, the cost of genome sequencing for your average Joe is dropping fast on its way to a big, historical benchmark: The $1,000 genome. We're not quite there, but we're getting close. This is exciting for a host of reasons, but particularly because it has the chance to usher in an era of personalized medicine, in which it will be far easier to discover if we have a genetic predisposition to cancer, Diabetes, and so on.

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