Genomes! Get Your Genomes! Just $50K

June 10, 2009

The price of getting your DNA sequenced just dropped in half–to $48,000.

With the new service, being offered by Illumina ( ILMN – news – people ), a San Diego biotechnology company, patients will sit down with a physician, get a prescription and then, after a period of time allowing them to have second thoughts, will receive an Apple ( AAPL – news – people ) computer loaded with their DNA sequence and software for reading it. On the computer (the customer’s to keep), will be the patient’s entire genome–the encoding of all 3 billion DNA letters in the body. (Forbes)