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June 8, 2009

San Jose Mercury News story on gene sequencing features comment by Chancellor-Designate

A Page One news story in the June 8,2009 issue of the San Jose Mercury News about development of new,cheaper tests to sequence the human genome features comments by UCSF Chancellor-Designate Susan Desmond-Hellmann and genomics pioneer J. Craig Venter. Both were speakers at last week’s opening celebration of the UCSF Helen Diller Family Cancer Research Building at Mission Bay.  Within a few years, your entire genome may be decoded in less than half an hour and cost just $1,000, according to the news story.  Teams of scientists, including several in the Bay Area, are hurrying to create tests that can swiftly, accurately and affordably sequence the genome, the report says.

http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_12542836