The whole secret of human genetic sequence is recorded in a deoxyribonucleic acid or deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). Now everyone can know the contents of Pandora's box body provided that paid U.S. $ 1,000.
Is Life Technologies Corp., a company based in Connecticut, United States, which offers the opportunity. Through Ion Torrent, a division of this company, they provide a special device to read the entire sequence of human DNA in a single day.
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| Ion Torrent CEO and chairman Jonathan Rothberg holds a semiconductor sequencing chip that will be used in the new Proton semi-conductor based genome sequencing machine in Guilford, Connecticut, January 5, 2012. (Picture from: http://richarddawkins.net/) |
"It's much faster than a few years ago that it took six to eight weeks," said a spokeswoman for the company, pointing device about the size of office printers.
Doctors said the move could revolutionize medicine. Understandably, when it will cost three times as much just to test for mutations in genes that increase risk of breast cancer and cervical cancer.
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| The Ion Proton Sequencer is roughly the size of a laser printer. (Picture from: http://ces.cnet.com/) |
The device is important for the research laboratory. They can use protons to obtain the complete genome sequence of, for instance people with cancer or autism. These efforts can shorten the search for genetic causes of these diseases and find ways of healing.
Baby's going to be the first order who have undergone whole genome readout. Every state in the land of Uncle Sam now wants the newborns analyzed its genome sequence. The aim is to trace at least 29 potential genetic diseases.
"But we need to be careful how to use this genetic information," said Chairman of the Department of Genetics at Yale University, Richard Lifton.
According to Lifton, the parents may actually not want to know their child has a gene that can increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease. *** [TELEGRAPH | MAHARDIKA SATRIA HADI | KORAN TEMPO 3762]
