A mighty controversy is sweeping the nation – but science can help set the record straight. I’m referring, of course, to the Minion toys that are currently included in McDonald’s Happy Meals for kids ...

Minions sit next to Guy Fieri atop my list of uncool things I’m not supposed to like that I’m actually an enormous fan of. A team of scientists must have heard my call: Science NEEDS more minions.

The MinION, a pocket-sized, USB-powered sequencing machine, lets scientists track the spread of deadly diseases in real-time.

Science. A DNA Sequencer in ... In the spring of 2014, the company released a USB-powered sequencer called the MinION (pronounced “min-eye-on” not “min-ee-un,” and neither yellow nor cute).

Grant Susner leans over the edge of a boat in Bodega Bay, stretches his arm toward the waves and releases “Bipinnaria” into the wild. Bipinnaria — bright yellow against the deep blue surface — begins ...

The Oxford Nanopore MinION represents a portable, real-time sequencing device that produces ultra-long reads from individual DNA and RNA molecules without the need for PCR amplification. Each MinION ...