• Question: What do you like most about your job?

    Asked by herm532hush3 to Laura on 1 Oct 2025.
    • Photo: Laura Durrant

      Laura Durrant answered on 1 Oct 2025:

      I really like exploring all the new technologies coming out in the field. Genomics is an area of science that’s advancing really fast, so biotechnology companies are inventing lots of new and better ways to sequence the genome.

      You might have heard of the Human Genome Project which ran between 1990 – 2003. It was the fist time that all 46 human chromosomes (known as the genome) were sequenced from end-to-end. It took 13 years to complete between the years 1990 – 2003… fast forward to today, and some modern technologies can do this in just 24 hours! It’s really quite remarkable.

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