{"id":23090,"date":"2016-03-03T17:47:54","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T01:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/this-genetics-company-claims-it-just-achieved-a-major-milestone-in-biology-and-it-could-transform-personalized-medicine"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:07:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:07:53","slug":"this-genetics-company-claims-it-just-achieved-a-major-milestone-in-biology-and-it-could-transform-personalized-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/this-genetics-company-claims-it-just-achieved-a-major-milestone-in-biology-and-it-could-transform-personalized-medicine","title":{"rendered":"This genetics company claims it just achieved a major milestone in biology \u2014 and it could transform personalized medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-genetics-company-claims-it-just-achieved-a-major-milestone-in-biology-and-it-could-transform-personalized-medicine.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Veritas Genetics, a Boston-based biotech company co-founded by Harvard geneticist George Church, is claiming it can now sequence your entire genome \u2014 the genetic blueprint inside all your cells that makes you who and what you are \u2014 for less than $1,000. That price tag includes an interpretation of the results and genetic counseling.<\/p>\n<p>If the claim is true, it would shatter a long-held barrier in genetic medicine.<\/p>\n<p><b>Reaching the $1,000 genome<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The so-called $1,000 genome has long been a holy grail in genetics. While others \u2014 notably the company Illumina \u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/is-the-1-000-genome-for-real-1.14530\"> have previously claimed<\/a> to reach this milestone, these efforts did not include the cost of interpreting the results.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/veritas-genetics-launches-1000-genome-test-2016-3\">http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/veritas-genetics-launches-100...2016&#45;3<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veritas Genetics, a Boston-based biotech company co-founded by Harvard geneticist George Church, is claiming it can now sequence your entire genome \u2014 the genetic blueprint inside all your cells that makes you who and what you are \u2014 for less than $1,000. That price tag includes an interpretation of the results and genetic counseling. If [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23090"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68153,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23090\/revisions\/68153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}