Union Minister Harsh Vardhan launches next-generation DNA sequencing facility in Hyderabad

Hyderabad | Sunday | 21st July, 2019

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The minister also laid the foundation stone for a new skill training and lecture hall complex on the occasion. The Next Generation Sequencing Facility promises to sequence up to 30 human genomes in a day and help researchers to individually tag genomes of up to 80,000 cells in eight minutes. The running cost of NGS facility NovaSeq Sequencer is Rs 30 lakh. However, the output is pretty good, as the sequencing of 30 genomes in a day is a very new feat in India. You have lumps of cells within a cancerous tissue which might have completely different DNA content..