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Pocket-Sized DNA Sequencers Could Stop Food-Borne Pathogen Outbreaks as Soon as They Start

I recently reviewed an interesting story on food-borne pathogen outbreaks and the need to rapidly …

byRapidMicro •December 12, 2019

Researchers in Carnegie Mellon University’s Department of Chemical Engineering (ChemE) are collabora…

byRapidMicro •April 22, 2019

CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeat) are short, repeated DNA sequences …

byRapidMicro •April 27, 2018

Tuberculosis ranks alongside HIV/AIDS as a leading cause of death worldwide. According to the World …

byRapidMicro •May 18, 2016

Seattle–based, Stratos Genomics Inc, an innovator in molecular engineering and gene sequencing techn…

byRapidMicro •June 16, 2015

Another step forward has just been taken in the area of synthetic biology. Research teams from Inser…

byRapidMicro •June 08, 2015

Thanks to research by Lee Gehrke, a professor of health sciences and technology, and other researche…

byRapidMicro •February 13, 2015

Responsible for almost 5000 deaths, the Ebola epidemic has ravaged West Africa and acted as a cataly…

byRapidMicro •November 11, 2014

In their new paper in the journal Cell , Keith Pardee, James J. Collins and colleagues from C…

byRapidMicro •October 31, 2014

A low-cost technology may make it possible to read long sequences of DNA far more quickly than cur…

byRapidMicro •July 07, 2014

Researchers have developed a new approach for the rapid detection of multiple disease pathogens in…

byRapidMicro •May 12, 2014

Chances are you've heard of mapping genes to diagnose rare diseases, predict your risk of canc…

byRapidMicro •April 07, 2014

Scientists who study past pandemics, such as the 14th-century Black Death that devastated much of …

byRapidMicro •March 06, 2014

Last year, Max Perelman worried that his 3-year-old daughter's rash could be chicken pox or po…

byRapidMicro •January 05, 2014

The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a molecular biology method that exponentially amplifies ver…

byRapidMicro •November 25, 2013