New Scientist Premium- Genome-in-a-day promised as DNA is put through hoops - Breaking News: "It took a decade of hard slog to produce the first, momentous, human genome readout - but a new device may soon do the job in just 24 hours

IT TOOK a decade of hard slog to produce the first, momentous read-out of the human genome, but researchers think they will soon be able to do the job in a day.
An instrument capable of reading thousands of DNA fragments per second is being developed by researchers led by Tony Bland of the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. The concept behind it was unveiled last week at a briefing in London. "