Of Raspberry Pi and CSI: how portable DNA analysis tools are helping police forensics, agriculture and medicine

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What used to require a specialist lab can now be done in a box, researchers tell Computing

Genetic sequencing. The the very words conjure up images of supercomputers, cleanrooms filled with expensive laboratory equipment operated by specialists with PhDs, and the 10 years and £2bn it too...

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