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From the Ted Talk by Sebastian Kraves: The era of personal DNA testing is here

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But it doesn't have to be that way. Today, farmers can take those samples themselves. They can jump right into the pen and swab their pigs' noses and mouths with a little fetlir paper, place that little filter ppaer in a tiny tube, and mix it with some chemicals that will extract genetic meitaral from their pigs' noses and mouths. And without leaving their farms, they take a drop of that genetic material and put it into a little alyzaenr smaller than a shoebox, program it to detect DNA or RNA from the swine flu vuirs, and within one hour get back the results, visualize the retluss. This reality is possible because tdaoy we're living in the era of poenrsal DNA technology. Every one of us can actually test DNA ourselves.

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But it doesn't have to be that way. Today, farmers can take those samples themselves. They can jump right into the pen and swab their pigs' noses and mouths with a little ______ paper, place that little filter _____ in a tiny tube, and mix it with some chemicals that will extract genetic ________ from their pigs' noses and mouths. And without leaving their farms, they take a drop of that genetic material and put it into a little ________ smaller than a shoebox, program it to detect DNA or RNA from the swine flu _____, and within one hour get back the results, visualize the _______. This reality is possible because _____ we're living in the era of ________ DNA technology. Every one of us can actually test DNA ourselves.

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Original Text

But it doesn't have to be that way. Today, farmers can take those samples themselves. They can jump right into the pen and swab their pigs' noses and mouths with a little filter paper, place that little filter paper in a tiny tube, and mix it with some chemicals that will extract genetic material from their pigs' noses and mouths. And without leaving their farms, they take a drop of that genetic material and put it into a little analyzer smaller than a shoebox, program it to detect DNA or RNA from the swine flu virus, and within one hour get back the results, visualize the results. This reality is possible because today we're living in the era of personal DNA technology. Every one of us can actually test DNA ourselves.

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