Mini-ion Pocket Sequencer
May 19, 2015 | Terry Sharrer
The “MiniION” is a portable DNA sequencer that’s slightly smaller than an iPhone. While its miniaturized nanopore technology is still in development, this could become an astonishing research tool that allows environmental researchers to do real time sequencing of spores, bacteria and viruses that float in the air, rather than taking samples back to a lab for analysis. MORE
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