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Out now: Real-time DNA barcoding with MinION! DNA barcoding isn't only for fancy labs - you can now discover global biodiversity in your kitchen while frying an egg (almost)! Reminds us of Dorothy Parker´s "Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye"

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Lara Urbanvor 2 Jahren

Thanks so much for this – @DanielGygax11, check out this Christmas gift! Merry Christmas from Heidelberg, Zurich, and Munich ☃️

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Rudolf Meier @rudolf-meier.bsky.socivor 2 Jahren

@DanielGygax11 Thanks Lara. All Amrita´s work of course. I am just amplifying the message.

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Reindert Nijlandvor 2 Jahren

What a festive paper announcement! Congrats @asrivath and @RudolfMeier15 on this great application for the @nanopore toys 🧬🧬🧬

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Dalton de Souza Amorimvor 2 Jahren

New tools to put taxonomy in a higher ground: not only species discovery, but rapid, cheap and reliable biomonitoring.

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