DNA Sequencing

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Huselstein: Okta pivoted from DNA sequencing smart glasses to an industrial upskilling platform
“They started working on technology that can help people make less mistakes in science and in the process of DNA sequencing using smart glass technology they figured that that was something that they would want to look into, how to translate that into bigger …”
Henri Huselstein Apr 19, 2023 ▶ 4:59 The Skill That Decides If AI Replaces You or Works For You
ALL-IN Assertion Partly supported
Friedberg: Gut microbiome DNA sequencing costs dropped from $1,000 to $5
“We, it used to be very, very expensive to sequence the DNA from your gut biome, which you do by looking at your poop, and then, you know, looking at all the DNA that's in the poop, and that tells you what your gut biome, what bacteria in your gut, that used to…”
David Friedberg Aug 26, 2022 ▶ 1:10:12 E93: Twitter whistleblower, cloud security vulnerabilities, student debt forgiveness & more
ANOTHER PODCAST Assertion Supported
Evans: Viral Sequencing Became Extremely Cheap and Fast Over Past Decade
“What was significant was this fact that it could be DNA, the DNA of COVID could be DNA. Could, can be sequenced and can be analyzed almost immediately. Which is sort of, which has been a kind of fundamental change in the last decade or so that it's gone from c…”
Benedict Evans Jul 13, 2021 ▶ 44:12 Creativity and Optimism
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Friedberg: DNA sequencing costs dropped faster than Moore's law
“DNA sequencing costs have dropped faster than Moore's law over the last 10 or 15 years.”
David Friedberg May 13, 2021 ▶ 1:06:57 E32: Behind the scenes of Elon hosting SNL, CDC failures, America's real-time UBI experiment & more
a16z Assertion Supported
iPhones can now perform EKGs, manage blood pressure, and sequence DNA
“It's been fascinating to see the broad range of applications that you can do on, on an iPhone today, whether it's an EKG or to manage blood pressure, or you can do DNA sequencing even today.”
Jorge Conde Apr 29, 2020 ▶ 10:14 Healthcare Has Left the Building
a16z Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ott: Illumina effectively holds a justified monopoly in DNA sequencing hardware
“Illumina effectively is a monopoly in the space of DNA sequencing, and in a lot of ways, rightly so.”
Gabriel Ott Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 16:38 a16z Podcast | On the Genomics of Disease, From Science to Business

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