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Point-of-Care DNA Sequencer Inching Closer to Widespread Use as Beta-Testers Praise Oxford Technologies’ Pocketsize, Portable Nanopore Device

MinION could help achieve NIH’s goal of $1,000 human genome sequencing and in remote clinics and outbreak zones shift testing away from medical laboratories

Point-of-care DNA sequencing  technology is edging ever closer to widespread commercial use as the Oxford Nanopore MinION sequencer  draws praise and registers successes in pre-release testing.

A pocketsize gene-sequencing machine such as the MinION could transform the marketplace by shifting DNA testing to remote clinics and outbreak zones while eliminating the need to return samples to clinical laboratories for analysis. Such devices also are expected to increase the need for trained genetic pathologists and medical technologists. (more…)

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