{"id":92136,"date":"2019-06-15T16:44:33","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T23:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/map-your-genome-at-home-with-a-cell-phone-sized-human-dna-sequencer"},"modified":"2019-06-15T16:44:33","modified_gmt":"2019-06-15T23:44:33","slug":"map-your-genome-at-home-with-a-cell-phone-sized-human-dna-sequencer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/map-your-genome-at-home-with-a-cell-phone-sized-human-dna-sequencer","title":{"rendered":"Map your genome at home with a cell-phone sized human DNA sequencer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/map-your-genome-at-home-with-a-cell-phone-sized-human-dna-sequencer.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And yet still; the system still requires everyone to carry an identification card.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The most extensive and detailed human genome sequence yet has been assembled using a hand-held device roughly the size of a cell phone.<\/p>\n<p>An international team of scientists working at a lab at the University of California, Santa Cruz, created a portable nanopore sequencer that not only used DNA fragments hundreds of times longer than is standard, but closed 12 gaps in the known human genome, according to a UCSC <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ucsc.edu\/2018\/01\/nanopore-genome.html\">press release<\/a>. That makes the human genome it assembled the most complete one ever created to date. A paper describing the research was published in the scientific journal <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/nbt.4060\">Nature Biotechnology<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The sequencer works by identifying changes in the flow of individual molecules of DNA when they pass through a microscopic membrane hole known as a nanopore. The device can read one million letters of DNA at a time, and has now been used to sequence a human individual\u2019s entire genome, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2159604-pocket-sized-scanner-helps-fill-gaps-in-the-human-genome\/\"><em>New Scientist<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And yet still; the system still requires everyone to carry an identification card. The most extensive and detailed human genome sequence yet has been assembled using a hand-held device roughly the size of a cell phone. An international team of scientists working at a lab at the University of California, Santa Cruz, created a portable [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92136","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\/92136","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\/526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}