March 12, 1999
Michigan Engineer Creates Device That Puts DNA Analysis in the Palm of the Hand
DNA analysis that used to take a few hundred square feet of laboratory space and several trained technicians has now been condensed onto a palm-size piece of silicon. But some scientists fear that the new invention, which could give almost anyone the ability to analyze DNA, may also multiply the ways in which modern genetics could be abused.
Mark A. Burns, an associate professor of chemical engineering at the University of Michigan,
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