Illumina, Life Technologies Add Genome-in-a-Day Machines
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The race to parse the building blocks of life has accelerated with competing reports from Life Technologies Corp. and Illumina Inc. that they’ve built machines that can sequence a genome in a day, rather than weeks or months.
The announcement boosted Life Technologies 8.3 percent to $46.17 at the close in New York, the biggest single-day jump in almost three years. Illumina rose 3.7 percent to $33.01.