Breakthrough leads to sequencing of a human genome using a pocket-sized device

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Channel: University of Birmingham · 2018 · Education

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Using an emerging technology – a pocket sized, portable DNA sequencer - our scientists, in collaboration with other institutions, sequenced a complete human genome, in fragments hundreds of times larger than usual, enabling new biological insights.

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