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This Little Silver Cube Could Be the Future of Personal DNA Testing
Aside from the logo of Spartan Bioscience, the Canadian company behind it, there's nothing much that tells you what it can do. But this unassuming device holds within it a bona fide revolution—at least, according to the medical doctor behind its design.
Or, if you're a cynic, it's a Pandora's box.
I recently drove out to the Ottawa suburbs to pay a visit to the offices of Paul Lem, founder and CEO of Spartan Bioscience, and his team of over 70 bright-young-things. Lem says the Spartan Cube can perform a range of diagnostics, including infectious disease and genetics tests, quicker, and more cheaply, than many other DNA testing machines.