Into the wild with DNA: Using portable nanopore DNA sequencers to combat wildlife crime

Wednesday, May 11, 2016 - 09:31 in Biology & Nature

A team has been awarded a prize for their proposal to crack down on wildlife crime using a portable DNA sequencing device, the MinION, to read the ‘barcode genes’ of animals affected by illegal trafficking. 

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