Illumina, a global company that specializes in genomic analysis, announced on Jan. 14 the sale of a new "factory-scale" genetic sequencing machine that makes sequencing more affordable than ...

The Helicos machine gets about 9 million sequence reads for each reaction chamber, and a refrigerator-sized machine contains 50 reaction chambers. Do the math, ...

DNA sequencing technology isn’t exactly accessible; a typical sequencing machine can easily cost $500,000. A startup called Ion Torrent aims to change that with a desktop sequencing machine for ...