Helen 'Happy' Reichert died in September. She was a lifelong New Yorker, a former television talk show host and Cornell University's oldest alumna. She was 109. Despite her death, however, Reichert's memory may live on through her genome sequence.On 26 October, the nonprofit X-Prize Foundation-best known for its attempt to spur the development ofprivate spaceships-launched a dollar10 million competition to accurately sequence 100 genomes from 100 centenarians over the course of one month, starting 3 January 2013.
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