Alex Burns - May 05, 2023
Gene sequencing accelerates with custom hardware
The cost to sequence a genome continues to drop exponentially. Over the past 20 years, the cost to sequence a human genome has dropped from the estimated $3 billion of the Human Genome Project, to a few hundred dollars.
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