Rapid DNA sequencing may soon be routine part of each patient's medical record

While the first sequencing of the human genome took researchers 13 years and $3 billion to achieve, under the auspicies of the Human Genome Project , the feat may soon be accomplished at the blinding rate of 6 billion nucleotide bases every 6 hours at a cost of $900. At least that is the extravagant claim being made by Oxford Nanopore Technologies, one of the pioneering companies driving new sequencing developments.