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X Prize
Incentivizing Breakthroughs
Grant Campany | Dec 1, 2014
With scientific funding on shaky ground, big-dollar competitions offer a new way for life-science innovators to bring their ideas to fruition.
Centenarian Sequencing Contest Begins
Edyta Zielinska | Jul 25, 2012
The first company to attempt to cheaply sequence the genomes of 100 people aged over 100 announced its intention to compete for the 2013 X prize.