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 benchtop machine that reads DNA using semiconductor technology could help make gene sequencing affordable to labs around the world. The machine's maker, Life Technologies in Carlsbad, California ...

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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

The biotech company Illumina is introducing a new machine that it says will decode a person's DNA in one week using $10,000 worth of materials--five times cheaper than any other competing gadget ...

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

Third-generation sequencing machines promise to make their mark one molecule at a time.

The idea: IBM wants to build a "DNA Transistor" that would be the world's cheapest genetic reader. Scientists refer to the idea as the "$1,000 genome." But IBM says they might be able to get the ...