With a unique programme, the US government has managed to drive the cost of genome sequencing down towards a much-anticipated target. In Silicon Valley, Moore's law seems to stand on equal footing with the natural laws codified by Isaac Newton. Intel co-founder Gordon Moore's iconic observation that computing power tends to double — and that its price therefore halves — every 2 years has held true
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