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Our resident scientist tells you his favourite genomics facts.
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Sequencing the first human genome, as part of the Human Genome Project, took 13 years and cost around $3 billion. Nowadays, sequencing machines are capable of sequencing the whole human genome in a few days, with a cost of around $1,000.
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