Portable DNA Sequencer MinION Helps Build the Internet of Living Things – IEEE Spectrum

It’s been nearly a year since the first portable DNA sequencers were shipped to giddy researchers waiting to be untethered from the refrigerator-sized machines in their labs. Now a desktop version by the same maker, Oxford Nanopore, is heading their way.

The company’s grand, long-term vision is to build an “internet of living things.”

The vision looks like this: researchers, consumers, government employees—everyone—will be reading the DNA of their own bodies and the living things around them, and streaming that data on the internet. DNA-reading sensors would be integrated into food production equipment, polluted waters, farms and phones.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/devices/portable-dna-sequencer-minion-help-build-the-internet-of-living-things

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