Shenzhen-based MGI Tech unveiled what it claims to be the world’s fastest gene sequencer, an advance that promises to help accelerate breakthroughs in cancer genomics and rare disease research. The company said at a launch event on Tuesday that the DNBSEQ-T7+ can sequence 144 human genomes a day, or one every 10 minutes. More than twice as fast as its previous T7 model, the machine could process more than 14 terabases (Tb) of genomic data a day, it said. This was an industry-leading figure for...