Summary: <p>After his infant son was rushed to intensive care, <a href="http://poptech.org/people/jonathan_rothberg">Jonathan Rothberg </a>was driven to invent high-speed <span class="caps">DNA</span> sequencing. His work ushered in the era of personal genetics and today his technology is used in laboratories and medical centers all over the world. Rothberg’s efforts led the way towards the first sequence of an individual human genome.</p>
