GETTING CLOSE
Interesting tidbit in Engadget today:
"Just we always wanted, a DNA tester to call our very own! We've been waiting for them to break that crucial $15k pricepoint, and now Spartan Bioscience has finally accomplished such a feat with its Spartan DX Personal DNA Analyzer.
The thing can do 4 samples at a time, and takes about 30 minutes to run a Polymerase Chain Reaction to identify the perp."
By itself, this is of interest to a few geeks. But think about where this hockey puck is going, and a personal DNA tester that's affordable by mainstream audiences are not far away. If not the gadget, than the ability to get personal DNA reports at your doctor's office are within reach.
Makes Google's investment in co-founder Sergey Brin's wife's biotech startup look all the more reasonable.
After all, if we're going to start mapping our own DNA, we'll need to put it somewhere and then search for it.
As GigaOm's Om Malik pointed out a few weeks ago,
"If Google wants to really organize the world information, it needs to consider DNA, the most personal of data."
Now if they only put one of these in a future iPhone.
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