The most popular news this week belongs to Illumina.
Last week, the company's cancer liquid biopsy subsidiary Grail just launched a $1 billion Series B round of financing. This week at J. At the P Morgan Health Conference, it again announced a partnership with a number of companies, including IBM, to deploy the middle and lower reaches. What is even more shocking in the industry is that it has launched a new DNA sequencer, the NovaSeq series, and announced that it will allow human genome-wide sequencing prices to enter the $100 era.
Illumina wants to sequence the genome into the $100 era
DNA sequencing giant Illumina has released a new DNA sequencer, the NovaSeq series. Lei Feng.com understands that the new instruments NovaSeq 5000 and NovaSeq 6000 run at 70% faster than existing instruments, and can complete a person's whole genome sequencing in less than an hour. Not long ago, genome-wide sequencing took more than a day.
Illumina CEO Francis DeSouza believes that "one day", the company's NovaSeq series will be controlled at $100 per person for human genome sequencing. In 2006, Illumina's first DNA sequencer measured a person's genome-wide data for $300,000, and today the company's highest-profile product is priced at only $1,000, which includes reagents and machine costs. Illumina has always been committed to moving their products from "Yangchun Baixue" to ordinary people's homes.
According to Illumina, the NovaSeq 6000 is expected to begin selling in April and the NovaSeq 5000 will be available for sale this year. The NovaSeq 5000 and 6000 are priced at $850,000 and $895,000, respectively.
However, for the news that the cost of sequencing will drop to $100, some industry believes that there is no shortage of speculation. According to Eric Topol, a specialist in heart disease and genetics, “The $100 genome plan proposed by the CEO of Illumina is a speculative act. One day we will reach that level of technology, but only when, what instrument is used, now not sure."
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