Powering Preventative Medicine.

The article features DNA Electronics, a biology-information technology (IT) company, which is gaining attention in the next-generation sequencing (NGS) and molecular diagnostics fields. It notes that some key intellectual property (IP) of the company is offering the foundations for semiconductor sequencing platforms. The SNP-DR handheld device can identify deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) variants from a saliva sample within 20-30 minutes. It relates how Chris Toumazou founded the company in 2003.