Scientists find a low-cost way to build genomes from scratch

To put it mildly, sequencing and building a genome from scratch isnt cheap. Its sometimes affordable for human genomes, but its often prohibitively expensive (hundreds of thousands of dollars) whenever youre charting new territory — say, a specific person or an unfamiliar species. A chromosome can have hundreds of millions of genetic base pairs, after all. Scientists may have a way to make it affordable across the board, however. Theyve developed a new method, 3D genome assembly…
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