And it took less than a full workday. 🧬 engineering
that can diagnose rare genetic diseases in an average of eight hours. This is a record-breaking time frame that is leap and bounds ahead of other current advanced technologies.
How did they break the Guinness World Record? The researchers achieved this breakthrough by sequencing the genomes of 12 patients over six months and managing to get a genetic diagnosis from five of them in about eight hours. One case took only 5 hours and 2 minutes to sequence. This resulted in the team setting the first Guinness World Records title for fastest DNA sequencing technique, a record that was certified by the National Institute of Science and Technology’s Genome in a Bottle group.
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