#genomics

Element Biosciences hit the $100 genome milestone in February 2026 — a one-million-fold cost reduction from the $100M price tag of the Human Genome Project in 2000, far outpacing Moore's Law.

San Diego startup Element Biosciences has achieved the sub-$100 human genome milestone in February 2026—a 1,000,000x cost reduction from the Human Genome Project in 2000, far outpacing Moore's Law and signaling a new era of mass-market personalized medicine.

Google DeepMind announced AlphaGenome on June 25, 2025, alongside a Nature publication and a preview API for non-commercial research. The model processes up to 1 million DNA letters and jointly predicts diverse regulatory properties and variant effects from a single framework.