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Apparently on field DNA testing https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/27/us/politics/dna-tests-baghdadi.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/27/us/politics/dna-tests

• aroch 7y ago
  Ehh, not really for any appreciable amount of sequencing, w've been pegged right around ~$1000/human genome for a while now [1]. The machine mentioned in the NYT article is almost certainly a variant of Thermo's RapidHIT system[2], which is not DNA sequencing. [1]: https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/fact-sheets/DNA-Sequencing-Costs-Data https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/fact-sheets/DNA-Sequen... [2]: https://assets.thermofisher.com/TFS-Assets/GSD/brochures/rapid-dna-brochure.pdf https://assets.thermofisher.com/TFS-Assets/GSD/brochures/rap...
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