Californian biotech firm Life Technologies is the first team to register for the $10 million (£6.4m) Archon Genomics X Prize, which will be a race to sequence the genomes of 100 centenarians.
The prize was first announced in 2006, and is a joint effort between the X Prize Foundation and geneticist J. Craig Venter. It's supposed to stimulate the development of less expensive sequencing technologies, and establish a clinical standard for DNA research.
By: Mark Brown, Edited by: Duncan Geere
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-07/24/first-team-for-x-prize-genomics
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