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He is looking at sequencing results.</div> <div class="imageCaption">Fred Sanger at his second Nobel Prize ceremony, 1980.</div> <div class="imageCaption"> <img src="/images/general/factoid.gif" alt="factoid" class="factoid-image" style="padding-bottom: 200px" /> <img src="/images/general/didyouknow.jpg" alt="Did you know ?" /> <p>The chemistry of the sequencing method used in sequencing projects like the Human Genome Project is the same as that developed by Fred Sanger. However, with current technology, it is possible to read up to 500 nucleotides per reaction.</p> <img src="/images/general/hmmm.jpg" alt="Hmmm..." /> <p>There is a limit of how many nucleotides can be read from a sequencing reaction. Why? What is the limiting factor?</p> </div>  <div id="slideEnd"></div> </div> </div> <div id="previewPane"> <span id="waitMessage">Loading image. 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