EXCERPT

One day in 1989, biophysicist David Deamer pulled his car off California's Interstate 5 to hurriedly scribble down an idea. In a mental flash, he had pictured a strand of DNA threading its way through a microscopic pore. Grabbing a pen and a yellow pad, he sketched out a radical new way to study the molecule of life.

Twenty-five years later, the idea is now being commercialized as a gene sequencing machine that's no larger than a smartphone, and whose effects might eventually be similarly transformative.

SOURCE

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/530746/radical-new-dna-sequencer-finally-gets-into-researchers-hands/

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