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Sequencing Developers’ Unprecedented Success Drives More Ambitious Goals For Genomics X Prize

New Genomic X PRIZE goals/subjects accelerate the drive toward personalized medicine

Swift improvements to the accuracy, speed, and lower cost of rapid gene sequencing have caused the sponsors of the globally-known X PRIZE to revamp their offer of a $10 million award to a team that is first to achieve a defined milestone in whole human genome sequencing.

Pathologists and clinical laboratory managers will be interested to learn how, last month, the X PRIZE Foundation announced a number of major changes to the formerly-named Archon Genomics X PRIZE. Most significantly, competition sponsors changed the subject from 100 genomes from unspecified donors, to genomes from 100 healthy centenarians.
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