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Stanford Professor Sequences His Genome in Just One Week

Reading an entire novel is often considered a nice week's accomplishment, but a Stanford University professor has put that idea to shame. In just seven days, he mapped his entire DNA. According to an AP story on the Denver Post's Web site, bioengineering professor Stephen Quake, PhD, announced yesterday that he'd sequenced his genome in just one week, using only one machine and drawing on less ...

Mass-Producing Human Skin Just Got Cheaper

In news that sounds much freakier than it actually is, the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Science Institute in Germany has recently made great strides in improving the cost and speed of producing human skin. We know. Just bear with us here. According to Popular Science, the system is set to go on sale next year, and can produce "5,000 little swatches of human skin a month, for a total of over 600 ...