Posted on 05/03/2006 6:13:37 AM PDT by grey_whiskers
See for example this thread first.
A new scientific breakthrough
from IBM, and here's what they do:
Using 'atomic force'
to sort molecules (of course!)
No electrophoresis, no "goo"!
Cheers!
It sounds that this could speed up DNA analysis. If so I wonder how long it will be before this is adopted by CODIS. Any changes made to the process would probably need to go through some serious "legal" considerations.
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