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About $7,000. there are more wholesale or retail firms which for 99 bucks you can get your 200 chromosomes. so weve always thought forewarned is forearmed. and the problem is that theres lots of things we can find out and know about that we cant do anything about. so do you really want to know that that little baby girl has genes that are likely to -- that shell get dementia or parkinsons disease or things that we cant really do too much about? its great to know that if youre liable to be diabet...

We are hoping maybe to get some word on whether or not the white house plans to release these much-anticipated photos of osama bin laden. we will find out that and much more, im sure, and bring it to you as soon as it gets under way. osama bin laden was buried at sea on monday. but with a gunshot to his head, u.s. officials are debating whether to release those graphic photos of his body. on top of that, the taliban made this statement. the taliban spokesman tells cnn, they dont believe bin la...

After the man believed to be osama bin laden had been killed early this morning in pakistan another crucial phase of the mission began, confirming the bodys identity. just hours later a senior administration official confirmed that a dna match had been made using bin laden family dna and comparing it to dna from the body. cnn chief medical correspondent and certified medical examiner dr. sanjay gupta is here to kind of explain how this was possible in so short a time. sanjay, when you see this o...

Qaeda leader. officials said the bin laden family dna was used to make the identification. it all sounds very "csi." left some people wondering can dna testing really be done so fast? chief medical correspondent and certified medical examiner dr. sanjay gupta joins me now. sanjay, i had no idea it could be done that fast. it seems like the government was able to confirm a match very, very quickly. >> yeah, you know, typically when youre talking about dna sequencing thats the process that can tak...

Incredibly quickly hp how so? >> well, its interesting because when people think about dna sequencing thats typically what takes a very long time. but to do a match, to actually take, for example, in this case they say maybe a siblings dna, that siblings going to share about 50% of their dna with their brother or sister. so right away you have specific areas you can sort of zero in on and say look, are there similarities between these two samples of dna? between everybody, anderson, more than 99...

True, right? >> the troops in the room certainly know. they are writing their field reports and all of that information coming back to washington. i think it will be a few days before there is complete clarity as to what went on in the final minutes. im sure some people know whether they are going to release all the details publicly remains to be seen. these navy s.e.a.l.s. have very specialized weapons and tactics of doing what they do. they dont want to release a lot of information and give aw...

Able to confirm a match very, very quickly. >> yeah, you know, typically when youre talking about dna sequencing thats the process that can take a long time, really sequencing someones entire genome. this is different. what theyre doing here is theyre trying to actually look at -- trying to create a match here. so you know, if you look at most people, you know, we share about 99% of our dna. thats in common. so instead theyre focusing on areas that are different between people. if you have some ...

Your sequence genal cost about $5,000. just a phenomenal change in our ability to collect the information. and a considerable change in our ability to understand it. although we still have a long way to go. >> do you think anything will come out of this to really shatter some of that or completely change the way we live our lives? >> a lot of our prescription for staying healthy is generic in terms of eat right, exercise, dont smoke. take advantage of various medical surveillance programs. but i...

Development and everything else that added up to about $3 billion. now, here we are in 2010, and to sequence your genome right now costs about $10,000. just a phenomenal change in our ability to collect that information and a considerable change in our ability to understand it, although we still have a long way to go. >> is there anything you think comes out of this to really shatter some of that or completely change the way that we live our lives? >> a lot of our prescription nor staying health...