2009: The big ideas (The Globe and Mail)
The cost of reading DNA is expected to drop as dramatically in 2009 as the stock market did last year. Technology has made it so fast and cheap to unravel the six billion chemical units of the human genome that the amount of DNA you can read for a dollar has been doubling every 12 months.
2009: The big ideas (The Globe and Mail)
This could be the year we grow our own limbs, map our own DNA and get to know our virtual selves.
Brian Taylor blogs on first minister's questions (BBC News)
on the debate about direct elections for health boards
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