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Lunch Session 8. The $1,000 genome is coming: Are we ready?

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Strand:

Biomedical Strand

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Session supported by: Oxford Nanopore Technologies

What scientific, ethical and legal issues will we be reporting and how will science journalists work with non-scientific colleagues on these subjects?

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Place & time

Venue:

Central Hall, Westminster

Date & Time:

Thursday, July 2, 2009 - 13:15 - 14:15

People

Chair:

Mark Henderson

Speaker:

Christopher Hood

Kevin Davies

Session reviews:

Ready or not: let’s wait a while!

2009-07-13 03:15

Do we need to be reminded that genetics has undergone an amazing revolution for the last decade? Since the first human genomes were decoded in 2002 - after 10 years of research and a staggering bill of more than 1 billion dollars - the sequecing technology, which allows for a full genome to unfold, has followed Moore’s law: becoming faster and cheaper by a factor of 10 each year.