X-Message-Number: 20250
From: "John de Rivaz" <>
Subject: Your personal genome on a CD for $1000 -- eventually?
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 00:38:36 +0100

From Infobeat:

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Your Life on Compact Disc?

How would you like your entire genetic blueprint mapped out on CD? It'll
cost you about $500,000 if genome pioneer J. Craig Venter has his way.

Venter, whose firm took 15 years, $5 billion and some of the world's fastest
computers to decode his genetic makeup, tells the Associated Press that he
plans to offer the same service to the general public. Venter's three
non-profit ventures are spending $30 million to build a new gene-sequencing
center in Rockville, Md., which he plans to open by year's end.

His eventual goal -- which he concedes is probably years away -- is to offer
the service for the much more affordable price of $1,000, he tells the AP.

A person's genome, once mapped out, would allow doctors to possibly prevent
and treat a host of inherited diseases, such as breast cancer, Alzheimer's
and high blood pressure.

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