News · 17. August 2019

34-year-old Olga Dudchenko created a better way to sequence a genome. The Ukrainian is ranked among the innovators by MIT Technology Review at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She uses Hi-C, a technique originally developed to study how chromosomes fold, to show which bits of DNA lie physically close to one another. Coupled with Dudchenko’s methods and algorithms, this makes assembling genomes easy.