Though new techniques have improved researchers» ability to isolate and amplify single genomes, another major problem still looms, echoing the familiar tension between holism and reductionism. (sciencemag.org)
Richard Durbin of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK, and Heng Li at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, can push the record back five times as far by reading a single genome. (newscientist.com)
But Reich cautions that date estimates from a single genome are necessarily rough. (sciencemag.org)