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Annie Herper, 51, watched results with her family.

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Of course talking animals are just a figment of the imagination, but I did like the Herper Burper joke.

Najash rionegrina, a snake with legs - The Panda's Thumb 2006

Of course talking animals are just a figment of the imagination, but I did like the Herper Burper joke.

Najash rionegrina, a snake with legs - The Panda's Thumb 2006

Yet, in the first of the passages in Job where it figures, the Septuagint gives Herper; in the second, the Vulgate quite irrelevantly inserts Arcturus; Karstens Niebuhr (1733-1815) understood Kesil to mean Sirius; Thomas Hyde (1636-1703) held that it indicated Canopus.

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As Forbes' Matthew Herper reported in three separate posts and nearly 100 related

Forbes.com: News Adrienne Burke 2012

I believe Herper is right that if you intend to access your genome sequence via a traditional medical route, it will certainly cost more than $1000 for the foreseeable future - if indeed you can get access to it at all, which is by no means guaranteed.

Debating The $1,000 Genome - Matthew Herper - The Medicine Show - Forbes 2011

Matt Herper asked a question on their Forbes.com pages: Will health care costs bankrupt America?

Forbes.com: News Lewis DVorkin 2011

Herper notes in his short post: for instance, even as the accuracy of high-throughput sequencing technology improves, there will still be a need for variants with major medical impact to be independently validated in clinical labs, and custom assays don't come cheap.

Debating The $1,000 Genome - Matthew Herper - The Medicine Show - Forbes 2011

The first Langreth/Herper co-byline was on a 2003 online feature called New Drugs To Watch, in which we tried to figure out which of the many medicines then in development were actually important.

Forbes.com: News Matthew Herper 2011

Check out my colleague Matt Herper's terrific coverage on that front.

Forbes.com: News David Whelan 2011