Global Technology – May 2015

Let's focus on this month's most important advances in technology, starting with a key breakthrough in biotech.

According to an article published in the latest issue of Genome Biology, investigators at Nationwide Children's Hospital have developed ultra-fast, highly scalable software that slashes the time it takes to search a person's genome for disease-causing variations from weeks to hours.

Consider that it took around 13 years and $3 billion to sequence the first human genome. Now, even the smallest research groups c.....