Need superfast, cheap DNA? Try the 'printer'
Wednesday, June 1, 2011 - 15:31
in Paleontology & Archaeology
If the printing press changed history by bringing the written word to the masses, just imagine what shake-ups a fast, reliable DNA printer could cause. A team of Duke University researchers hope to find out by playing Gutenberg to the synthetic biology set. The researchers have created a special chip that prints out DNA almost 10 times faster, and with far smaller machinery and less human work, than conventional methods.