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USB stick sized DNA sequencing device announced.
Oxford Nanopore Technologies has said that it’s disposable gene sequencing device will be available by the end of 2012. Priced under US$900, the MinION device plugs into a computer and delivers results via the USB port.
A minaturized version of the company’s larger GridION device, the MinION uses pores made from bacterial proteins. An electric current flows through the pore. The DNA bases interrupt the current in different ways as they go through.
(via 8bitfuture)
A minaturized version of the company’s larger GridION device, the MinION uses pores made from bacterial proteins. An...
This is truly amazing!
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