It's only been three years since UC Santa Cruz researchers proved that long-read human genome assembly using the same nanopore technology developed on campus could be done at all. At the time, it was a monumental effort, ...
Biotechnology
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A nanopore is a tiny hole in a thin membrane with a diameter of around a billionth of a meter, or about the width of a single DNA molecule. The potential applications of these nanopores are so diverse—from medicine to information ...
Nanomaterials
Jan 14, 2020
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Not all nanopores are created equal. For starters, their diameters vary between 1 and 10 nanometers (nm).
Nanomaterials
Sep 27, 2019
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When MIT research scientist Christopher Carr visited a green sand beach in Hawaii at the age of 9, he probably didn't think that he'd use the little olivine crystals beneath his feet to one day search for extraterrestrial ...
Space Exploration
Jun 18, 2019
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University of Groningen scientists have developed nanopores to directly measure the mass of peptides. Although the resolution needs improvement, this proof of principle shows that a cheap and portable peptide mass spectrometer ...
Analytical Chemistry
Feb 20, 2019
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In a first for plant virology, a team from CIRAD recently used nanopore technology to sequence the entire genomes of two yam RNA viruses. This little-used but promising molecular biology technique paves the way for new tools ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jan 11, 2019
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Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is very aggressive, as the cancer cells quickly grow and easily spread throughout the body. Often, SCLC can be diagnosed using several common tests, but has poor survival following metastasis.
Analytical Chemistry
Oct 8, 2018
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(Phys.org) —A low-cost technology may make it possible to read long sequences of DNA far more quickly than current techniques.
Bio & Medicine
Jun 27, 2014
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New types of nanostructures have shown promise for applications in electrochemically powered energy devices and systems, including advanced battery technologies.
Nanomaterials
Sep 4, 2013
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A mathematical model created by Aalto University (Finland) researcher Timo Ikonen explains for the first time how the DNA chains in our genome are translocated through nanopores that are only a couple of nanometres thick.
General Physics
May 11, 2012
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