Microfluidics or lab-on-a-chip are the latest advances: http://www.extremetech.com/computing/84340-new-silicon-chip-sequences-complete-genome-in-three-hours htt

Microfluidics or lab-on-a-chip are the latest advances: http://www.extremetech.com/computing/84340-new-silicon-chip-sequences-complete-genome-in-three-hours http://www.extremetech.com/computing/84340-new-silicon-chip-... The progress in this field has been far better than Moore's Law [1] so it could be very practical. [1] Excellent TED talk on it too by Richard Resnick: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8bsCiq6hvM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8bsCiq6hvM