Sentences with phrase «in gene sequencers»

Today, there are sensors in gene sequencers, telescopes, forest canopies, roads, bridges, buildings, and point - of - sale terminals.

Not exact matches

Lacking money to outfit the new lab, Wang and Xin bought used equipment: a single channel DNA sequencer (bought and barely touched by a Harvard Medical School researcher); second - hand centrifuges and pipettes; a reconditioned CytoScan HD system that detects variations in the number of copies of a gene.

Genes in Space - 1 marked the first time the PCR was used in space to amplify DNA with the miniPCR thermal cycler, followed shortly after by Biomolecule Sequencer, which used the MinION device to sequence DNA.

By the time the DNA sequencer made the Human Genome Project possible in the late 1990s, scientists were mapping genes at thousands of times the rate that they had done two decades before.

AIRLIE, VIRGINIA — In the 1990s, gene sequencers were under the gun to make their raw data public as rapidly as possible.

Here, we employed cDNA amplicon sequencing using a long - read portable sequencer, MinION, to characterize various types of mutations in cancer - related genes, namely, EGFR, KRAS, NRAS and NF1.

«Taste is also important when it comes to the development of dietary habits,» Bruford said, «and the sequencers discovered mutations in the panda's T1R1 gene which may affect its ability to taste meat, one possible explanation for why a potential carnivore would rely on a strict bamboo diet.»