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Saturday, July 3, 2010

The Dawn of Customized Medicine

ITProPortal:
IBM has partnered with medical device manufacturer Roche to develop a low-cost tool capable of analysing the human genome.

Business Week reports that the device will allow doctors to analyse a patient's genetic makeup within a matter of seconds.

IBM warned, however, that the technology is unlikely to be available for another decade.
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[T]he breakthrough technology was based on IBM's DNA Transistor, which uses 'nanopores' to read individual strands of human DNA by identifying each DNA base with an electric field.


Read more: http://www.itproportal.com/portal/news/article/2010/7/2/ibm-develop-low-cost-gene-reader/#ixzz0sdACI0AG

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