{"id":33541,"date":"2017-01-17T13:23:53","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T21:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/scientists-can-now-sequence-dna-with-a-smartphone"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:57:05","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:57:05","slug":"scientists-can-now-sequence-dna-with-a-smartphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/scientists-can-now-sequence-dna-with-a-smartphone","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Can Now Sequence DNA With a Smartphone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-can-now-sequence-dna-with-a-smartphone.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was not so long ago that sequencing even tiny snippets of DNA was a costly, cumbersome process that required access to a state-the-art lab. Today, we are inching close to putting a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/science\/archive\/2016\/04\/this-technology-will-allow-anyone-to-sequence-dna-anywhere\/479625\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DNA sequencer in every pocket<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/scientists-can-now-sequence-dna-with-a-smartphone-1791298213\">http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/scientists-can-now-sequence-dna-with-a-smartphone-1791298213<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was not so long ago that sequencing even tiny snippets of DNA was a costly, cumbersome process that required access to a state-the-art lab. Today, we are inching close to putting a DNA sequencer in every pocket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33541"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59112,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33541\/revisions\/59112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}