Sentences with phrase «of gene sequencers»

P. falciparum is a top target of gene sequencers because it has thwarted all attempts at control.

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.

For more than a decade, gene sequencers have been improving more rapidly than the computers required to make sense of their outputs.

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

Next, they put the samples into an instrument called a DNA sequencer — which automatically analyzes genetic material — to read short viral gene fragments millions or even billions of times.

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.

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.

Sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene fragments was performed on an ABI Prism 377 automated sequencer (Genomics Research Laboratory at North Carolina State University) with the BigDye Terminator v3.1 Cycle Sequencing Reaction kit (Applied Biosystems).

«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.»