Race for $1,000 genome sequencing heats up

If you can't afford $350,000 to have your genome sequenced, wait awhile. The price is dropping fast. The race is on to get the job done for less than $1,000, and companies like Pacific Biosciences is just one of many making the lunge for the $10 million prize that is now tied to that achievement. Helicos BioSciences says that it may soon get the price of sequencing down to $72,000, according to the New York Times.

"We can look somebody in the eye and say, 'This instrument is going to get you to the $1,000 genome,' " said Steve Lombardi, the president of Helicos, which is based in Cambridge, Mass.

- read the article from The New York Times

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