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Handheld device sequences human genome

29-Jan-2018

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Handheld device developed by the company Oxford Nanopore.

Nanopore tech analyser uses longer strands of DNA.

Can read parts of the genome not seen before including telomeres.

Patient benefits also depend how fast we can make sense of the genomic.

The study was published in the Nature Biotechnology journal.

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Matthew (Matt) Loose

Professor of Developmental and Computational Biology at the University of Nottingham.

Nature Biotechnology

Journal providing information from all areas of biotechnology

Nicholas (Nick) Loman

Professor of Microbial Genomics and Bioinformatics at the University of Birmingham.

Oxford Nanopore Technologies

Company developing and selling nanopore sequencing products.

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Precision Medicine