Into the wild with DNA: Using portable nanopore DNA sequencers to combat wildlife crime
Wednesday, May 11, 2016 - 18:21
in Biology & Nature
Close-up of the MinION handheld DNA sequencer. A team from the University of Leicester has been awarded a prize for their proposal to crack down on wildlife crime using a portable DNA sequencing device, the MinION - developed by Oxford Nanopore Technologies - to read the 'barcode genes' of animals affected by illegal trafficking.