Machine can read 144 human genomes a day, besting top-of-the-line rival from American competitor Illumina, Shenzhen company ...

DNA sequencing technology isn’t exactly accessible; a typical sequencing machine can easily cost $500,000. A startup called Ion Torrent aims to change that with a desktop sequencing machine for ...

A device that reads the sequence of DNA using semiconductor technology could bring the power of sequencing to a much broader swath of the science world. The desktop machine, developed by a startup ...

Sequencing the samples in parallel, the machine takes just one hour to read 1.3 billion of the chemical “bases”–known as A, C, T, and G–that make up a strand of DNA.

DNA sequencing technology isn't exactly accessible; a typical sequencing machine can easily cost $500,000. Ion Torrent aims to change that.

A Massachusetts company has published data from a DNA sequencer that can read individual letters from single molecules of DNA. The machine, produced by Helicos BioSciences, is the first of a new ...

1 machine, 4 weeks now enough to sequence human genome Researchers have used a new machine that sequences millions of small DNA … ...

In the past decade, the cost of sequencing an entire human genome has dropped from $1 billion to $10,000. As companies race to crack the $1,000 genome, the contending DNA machines in the ...

A new kind of machine for decoding DNA may help bring costs so low that it would be feasible to decode an individual's DNA for medical reasons. The machine, developed by 454 Life Sciences of ...