At a time when the longtime goal of a $1,000 genome is still just out of reach, a Harvard University physicist is promising an even cheaper price--the ability to sequence a human genome for just $30.
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Eleven years after the death of an 18-year-old boy led to the suspension of some trials and close scrutiny by regulators, Bloomberg Business Week will report in its April 26 issue that gene therapy is experiencing a revival among scientists and drugmakers led by Genzyme and Pfizer Inc. in the U.S. and Novartis AG in Europe.
HudsonAlpha Cell | HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology
Topic: Miscellaneous
10:36 pm EDT, Apr 7, 2010
Some things are very difficult to visualize from the flat pages of a book. Among them is one of life’s basic building blocks: the cell.
“We know from discussions with educators across the state that the leading science concepts students struggle with are cells and the differences between different types of cells,” said Dr. Neil Lamb, director of educational outreach for the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology.
In response, Lamb and his team have introduced HudsonAlpha Cell. Using techniques found in video gaming, Web-based HudsonAlpha Cell allows viewers to interact with plant, animal and bacteria cells by double clicking to zoom, clicking and dragging to rotate, and performing a simple mouse over for annotations.
