NHGRI Awards More than $50M for Low-Cost DNA Sequencing Tech Development

Oct 13, 2009

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This article, originally published Oct. 8, has been updated with comments from an NHGRI program director and further information from NHGRI and grant recipients.

The National Human Genome Research Institute has awarded 16 research teams a total of $48 million to develop DNA sequencing technologies that aim to reduce the cost of sequencing a human genome at high quality to $1,000 or less.

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