The process of sequencing the 3 billion 'letters' of human DNA took researchers at the Human Genome Project 15 months and $300 million to complete.
Celera Genomics accomplished the same thing in 9 months. But could it all be done in a day, through a system developed by David Deamer, a chemistry professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz? Deamer, along with researchers from Harvard University and Agilent, is coming close to making it happen.
If it works, doctors would have a device that would generate your complete biological map within a matter of hours. From that, doctors could know almost immediately your susceptibility to specific diseases and your reaction to certain drugs.
