If your computer and your DNA had a baby, it would be the SNP Dr. from DNA Electronics. SNP Dr. is the world’s first hand held semi-conductor device that will be able to read your DNA in about 15-30 minutes. I was able to chat with DNA Electronics CEO Prof. Chris Toumazou who is also the founder of Toumaz Technologies, the company that brought you Sensium. Toumazou let me in on how SNP Dr. will change medicine and genetic testing, and what we can look forward to in the future of semi-conductors and biology.

The current means of looking at your genetic code involves actual looking. Optic sensors help to pour through your DNA and discover variations. That technique is slow and difficult to scale down. Semiconductors, though, are getting faster and smaller every day. So a semiconductor device like SNP Dr. can be cheap and easily produced at a hand held size. Imagine a world where genetic testing could be done with just some spit, a cotton swab, and your iPhone.

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