NEW X PRIZE SEEKS TO BOOST CHEAP, QUICK GENE-SEQUENCING TECHNOLOGY

Two years ago, engineer Burt Rutan won the $10 million Ansari X Prize when his SpaceShipOne flew 62 miles into space. The second X Prize winner won't travel nearly as far -- but will have to traverse an unzippered human genome, crunching its 3 billion bits of DNA data in record time.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/nation/15599930.htm)