By Gary Flockhart DIM the lights. Cue the dramatic sound effects. After a fortnight's voting, The Guide can announce the winner of our inaugural Battle of the Bands competition. And that winner is... [Drum roll, please]... Douglas Kay Band for their track Better...

California-based Pacific Biosciences said its new gene-sequencing machine will soon be able to sequence an entire human gene map in four minutes at a cost of just $1,000.