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The Science Behind Why We Age | Episode 1
Lifespan with Dr. David Sinclair
The Cost of a Human Genome Sequencing Machine
It used to be expensive. Just to read the first human genom was more than two billion dollars and took an army of people and whole buildings. Now we can read a geno on a snicker sized in a day. And we use that same technology to read the d ana mithylation patterns. We put it through what's called a d and a sequence, sir. That brings the cost down to about less than a dollar to run this. Why is that important? It means that one day, anybody can do a cheek swab and determine their biological age.
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