Reza Ghadiri at the Scripps Research Institute, a local chemist has been able to win a four-year term, $5.1 million grant, awarded by the National Institutes of Health to devise a different and quick method of sequencing genomes.

This person’s work is comparable to that of two other local firms, which are Life Technologies and Illumina, since they are all racing to become the first to be able to sequence a person’s complete genome for no more than $1,000.

A genome is the entire set or collection of genes of a person that tells almost everything about a person from the eye color to the development of  Alzheimer’s, and this technique would help diagnosing genetic diseases and accordingly offer medicines tailored to suit genetic formation.

Ghadiri said, “If you imagine an old fashioned gramophone, it's as if there's a needle that's going to read a strand of DNA one molecule at a time".

Putting DNA via a pore is comparable to reading head, enabling a person to read one piece at one time.

This system would permit him detecting each of the molecular elements of gene while they pass through the pore and offer a digital reading of the structure of the DNA.