Genomics
The reading, mapping, and manipulation of entire genetic sequences — the foundation for gene therapies, inherited-disease diagnostics, and drug-target discovery.
A genome is an organism's complete set of DNA instructions — roughly three billion base pairs in humans. Genomics reads that sequence, compares it across individuals and species, and maps how variation drives disease. That sequence data is now cheap to generate: the cost of sequencing a human genome fell from $100 million in 2001 to under $200 today. The hard part is interpretation — most variants have unknown effects, and the gap between "we can read this" and "we know what it means" is where nearly all the clinical risk lives.
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The zombie-cell shortcut
JCVI poisoned a bacterium's DNA with a chemotherapy drug, then slid a synthetic genome from a different species into the dead cell — and some woke up and divided.
VITARI
A mini-fridge-sized sequencer that runs a whole human genome for $100 in chemicals — the same per-genome cost the giants charge, on a machine that costs half as much to buy.
Have Your Best Baby
A startup now sells IVF parents a dashboard that ranks their embryos not only by disease risk but by predicted IQ, height and eye color — pick the highest score.
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