Hand-Held Device for Extracting DNA
July 30, 2013 | Terry Sharrer
Extracting DNA from a cell sample and prepping it for sequencing, by current methods, takes twenty to thirty minutes. Engineers at the University of Washington, however, have built a hand held machine that can process four samples at a time in two to three minutes. Engineering that makes this possible involves a microprobe which attracts DNA when an electrical field is applied. MORE
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