UK company develops a $900 fast, portable, and disposable DNA sequencer to support genome research and personalized medicine.

We are getting wind that the developers of the MinION DNA sequencer have been able to work out early issues in reliability, and intend to bring a device market later this year. Having a device ...

The MinION isn’t the only option for a project like this. In 2013, one group of scientists sailed a more traditional microwave-sized sequencer around the Southern Line Islands, some of the most ...

Back in 2012, a UK company called Oxford Nanopore announced a chewing gum packet-sized DNA sequencer, something that people found hard to believe since rival machines can be as big as fridges ...

Fighting Ebola With a Palm-Sized DNA Sequencer The MinION, a pocket-sized, USB-powered sequencing machine, lets scientists track the spread of deadly diseases in real-time.

Expedition 56 Flight Engineer Ricky Arnold prepares amplified DNA collected from microbes living aboard the International Space Station for sequencing using the Biomolecule Sequencer. The ...

The product will be called the MinIon and it will plug into a USB port on a computer. Using the sequencer and some sort of enzyme solution, prepared samples can be applied to the sequencer and ...

A company called Oxford Nanopore has what may be the coolest USB gadget ever called the MinION DNA Sequencer. The device looks like some sort of fat flash drive.

To democratize genome analysis, Oxford Nanopore Technologies has developed the MinION, a portable, low-cost, real-time sequencer that can enfranchise the smallest labs.

The tiny DNA sequencer MinION has managed to completely assemble an E.coli genome and is able to detect viruses faster than conventional methods Oxford Nanopore Technologies Scientists from Canada ...

A little over a year ago, the MinION USB stick DNA sequencer was announced by Oxford Nanopore Technologies. This dream device was to cost under $1,000 and be able to sequence up to 150 million ...

Using A MinION Nanopore DNA Sequencer In OrbitExpedition 56 Flight Engineer Ricky Arnold prepares amplified DNA collected from microbes living aboard the International Space Station for sequencing ...