ust a decade ago, sequencing a human genome was a monumental international effort costing more than $2 billion. Just after a decade the cost of sequencing a human genome is about to drop to just $1000. Thanks to one man’s personal motivation has made that sci-fi fantasy to reality.
Jonathan Rothesberg’s Life Technologies launched his newest sequncing toy, a benchtop Ion Proton at this year’s CES. By 2012, Ion Proton can sequence a human genome for just $1000. And PC Magazine and Forbes called the Ion Proton as the coolest gadget at the CES. And Steve Jobs’ has played an indirect role in Jonathan Rothberg’s success and the coolest gadget.
In an interview to his alma matter Carengie Mellon University, the $1000 genome man Rothberg said he heard Steve Jobs speak at Carnegie Mellon during his senior year after the launch of the Macintosh. And Steve Hobs shared the reason for his success to the student audience. And the secret to his success was “just do it” attitude. This was years before Nike coined the phrase. Rothberg said
I wanted to understand if Steve Jobs was made out of something different than the rest of us, but he explicitly said you are really defined by what you do It was that ‘aha’ moment, where I realized life was about doing as opposed to hesitating. And it reminded me of something my mother told me: You don’t go through life with your IQ on your forehead—what matters is what you do with yourself.
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