Did you know you can buy an Oxford Nanopore sequencer for about $2000 euro? It sits on your desk and it will sequence DNA or RNA at about 450 bases per second

Did you know you can buy an Oxford Nanopore sequencer for about $2000 euro? It sits on your desk and it will sequence DNA or RNA at about 450 bases per second https://nanoporetech.com/platform/technology https://nanoporetech.com/platform/technology It somehow grabs a free strand of DNA\RNA and pulls it through a specially constructed pore on a membrane. It reads the voltage change as it goes through because each type of base (ATGC) changes the voltage differently, and interprets the sequence and outputs the data in a file. Doesn't even need PCR amplification because it reads a single strand. I thought it must be fake because it sounds like something out of science fiction but Nature did an article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-021-01108-x https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-021-01108-x Mind blowing