Sequence your genes, get a Mac

The According to Forbes, the cost to get your DNA sequenced is down to $48,000 (from $350,000 just a year and a half ago) – and to sweeten the deal, San Diego biotech company Illumina will toss in a Mac and appropriate software for viewing your genetic code. (No detail at present on whether that gets you an iMac, MacBook Pro, or what.)

Amazing stuff, even if nobody's quite sure yet what the owner of one's own genome data will do with it. (However, I can guess what some Internet wags will do with this particular news story: "$48,000? Haw, that must be $1000 for the sequencing, $47,000 for the Mac!")