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Ever Closer to Making that CSI Technology a Reality

Sep 24, 2008

Richard Mathies' work is profiled in Technology Review, which covers the portable DNA analyzer developed by Mathies and his team at UC Berkeley. The platform carries out real-time STR analysis of DNA at a crime scene, for instance, in as little as 2.5 hours. Mathies told Tech Review, "While previous groups have developed lab-on-a-chip systems, none of them have succeeded in making a completely portable, robust system that can be used at a scene."

 

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