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Part 1 of 2: David Friedberg is All-In on Science (#297)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

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The Cost of DNA Sequencing Has Come Down

Digital technologies have driven the cost down of DNA sequencing faster than Moore's law in the past 20 years. As a result, we are able to see the physical world, the DNA in the physical world at a resolution that was never possible before. In the human gut, there's about 40 trillion bacterial cells plus or minus a lot of controversy on how many there are,. roughly 10 trillion human cells in the body.

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